But each hoped that if the need rose he would cease to be gentle.
Merle obeyed the call, and in the library of the Whipple New Place, where once he had been chosen to bear the name of the house, he listened with shocked amazement while Harvey D., with much worried straightening of pictures, rugs, and chairs, told him why Whipple money could no longer meet the monthly deficit of the _New Dawn_.

The most cogent reason that Harvey D.could advance at first was that there were too many Liberty Bonds to be bought.
Merle, with his world-weary gesture, swept the impeding lock from his pale brow and set pained eyes upon his father by adoption.

He was unable to believe this monstrous assertion.

He stared his incredulity.

Harvey D.winced.He felt that he had struck some defenseless child a cruel blow.