Brunt, of Adams & Brunt, and myself are appointed executors.

So now, that is just how you stand as far as I can see: seventy-five hundred dollars in ready money and, if we suppose you rent the California Street house, income property that nets you two hundred and thirty-four a month.

The will will have to be probated some time next month and you will have to appear; however, I shall let you know about that in time." During the next two weeks Vandover was plunged into the affairs of business for the first time in his life.

It interested and amused him, and he felt a certain self-importance in handling large sums of money, and in figuring interest, rents, and percentages.

Three days after his interview with Mr.Field the sale of his father's office effects took place, and the consequent five hundred dollars Vandover turned over into the hands of the lawyer, who was already looking for an investment for the eighty-nine hundred.