It's a valuable piece of property, and I will swear to you that if at the end of that time Henry Witherspoon does not go into the Colossus with his father, it will be the father who keeps him out.

Now promise me that you won't worry." Witherspoon got up and took Henry's hand.

"You have done the best you could, my son.

It is peculiar and unbusinesslike, but we can't help that." "Will you explain to mother ?" "Yes, but the more I look at it the stranger it seems.

I don't know, however, that it is so strange after all.