In the meantime you have your opportunity.

Graydon Muir will share in the fortunes of his brother, who has had the reputation of being very wealthy and eminently conservative.

I have learned, however, that he has invested largely in one enterprise that now appears to be very dubious--how largely no one but himself knows.
If this affair goes through all right you couldn't do better than develop Graydon Muir into an impatient suitor; and you had better keep him well in hand for a time, anyway.

He is a good business man and far more to be depended upon than rich young fellows who have inherited wealth, with no ability except in spending it.

If the Muirs pass through these times they will become one of the strongest and safest houses in the country.