Any one can follow, but since, when everybody's crop is good, the price comes down, the man who gets the prize is the one who shows the way." "He was content to face the risk," said Miss Barrington.
"Of course," said the Colonel quietly.

"I should be the last to make light of his foresight and courage.

Indeed, I am glad I can acknowledge it, in more ways than one, for I have felt lately that I am getting an old man.

Still, there is one with greater capacities ready to step into my shoes, and though it was long before I could overcome my prejudice against him, I think I should now be content to let him have them.

Whatever Lance may have been, he was born a gentleman, and blood is bound to tell." Maud Barrington, who was of patrician parentage, and would not at one time have questioned this assertion, wondered why she felt less sure of it just then.
"But if he had not been, would not what he has done be sufficient to vouch for him ?" she said.
Barrington smiled a little, and the girl felt that her question was useless as she glanced at him.