She answered, "No, John, I wanted to see you--so I just came up." "Oh, that's all right, Molly--what is it ?" he returned.
"Well--" answered the young woman, listlessly, "it's about; father.
You know he's badly in debt, and some way--of course he sells lots of land and all, but you know father, John, and he just doesn't--oh, he just keeps in debt." Barclay had been lapsing back into his revery as she spoke, but he pulled himself out and replied: "Oh, yes, Molly--I know about father all right.

Can't you make him straighten things out ?" "Well, no.

John, that's just it.

His money comes in so irregularly, this month a lot and next month nothing, that it just spoils him.

When he gets a lot he spends it like a prince," she smiled sadly and interjected: "You know he is forever giving away--and then while he's waiting he gets in debt again.