4/18 But he fancies himself an exceedingly shrewd man." "He has been remarkably fortunate in his operations." "So he has. But he is more indebted, I think, to good luck than to a sound judgment. He has gone up to dizzy height so rapidly, that his weak head is already beginning to swim." "What has become of that pretty little ward of his ?" asked Martin, somewhat abruptly. "You would have been more likely to get a satisfactory answer." "I may do so after I have the ten thousand dollars in my pocket. That was rather a shameful business, though; wasn't it? |