Sometimes, as I now recall it, Uncle Peter was like a little child.

I remember how he tried to make me understand just how big my grandfather's interests were by telling me that if two dollars were taken from every man, woman, and child in the United States, it would just about add up to what he and the Grahams possessed, and my Grandfather Standish's interests were three-quarters of the whole.

I remember how a hunted look would come into my Uncle Peter's face at times when I asked him how all this money was used, and where it was.

And he never answered me as I wanted to be answered, and I never understood.

I didn't know _why_ people feared my grandfather and John Graham.