He could afford to give back half the price he had received for the mine and yet be a well-to-do man.
He paid over to his father the rents from Folking, but he had the house and home-farm for nothing.

And the sum which he had received for Polyeuka by no means represented all his savings.

He did not like to think that he had denuded this man who had been his partner of everything in order that he himself might be unnecessarily rich.

It was not pleasant to him to think that the fatness of his opulence had been extracted from Jack Adamson and from--Euphemia Smith.

When the application for return of the money had been first made to him from Australia, he hadn't known what he knew now.