You see the old gentleman takes a great pride in his judgment of men, and always boasted to his sons that he'd never in his life made a mistake in trusting the wrong man.

Now Alfred and James Albert, Junior, think they have a great joke on him; and they've twitted him so much about it he'll scarcely speak to them.

From the first, Alfred says, the old chap's only repartee was, 'You wait and you'll see!' And they've asked him so often to show them what they're going to see that he won't say anything at all!" "He's a funny old fellow," Mrs.Palmer observed.

"But he's so shrewd I can't imagine his being deceived for such a long time.

Twenty years, you said ?" "Yes, longer than that, I understand.