She seemed to have the _entree_ everywhere in the county.

All this greatly upset and troubled the old folk, whose heads Frank looked over as he carelessly nodded them good-morning driving by.
The cottage people from whose ranks his family had so lately risen, however, had a very decided opinion upon the subject, and expressed it forcibly.

"'Pend upon it," they said, "'pend upon it, he have zucked zumbody in zumhow." This unkind conclusion was perhaps not quite true.

The fact was, that Frank, aided by circumstances, had discovered the ease with which a man can borrow.

That was his secret--his philosopher's stone.