CHAPTER XI.
ABOUT SEVERAL THINGS.
Albert Charlton, like many other very conscientious men at his time of life, was quarrelsomely honest.

He disliked Mr.Plausaby's way of doing business, and he therefore determined to satisfy his conscience by having a row with his step-father.

And so he startled his sister and shocked his mother, and made the house generally uncomfortable, by making, in season and out of season, severe remarks on the subject of land speculation, and particularly of land-sharks.

It was only Albert's very disagreeable way of being honest.

Even Isabel Marlay looked with terror at what she regarded as signs of an approaching quarrel between the two men of the house.
But there was no such thing as a quarrel with Plausaby.