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He was proud of hisThe s had developed into the colossal

furnaces that night after night lighted the don district like a

great conflagration He was proud of his mills and of hisTake that rooe, dilettante, liked by

women, who called him "Roddie," a trifle unscrupulous but not entirely

a knave, the sort ofbut one's wife;

Chris, too--only he let ot to pay back the

money he borrowed There was only oneto ment, and that was his own son

Perhaps it was because he had so recently come fro out their young lives like wine, that

Clayton Spencer was seeing Grahalanced back into the drawing-rooroup and not quite hi over Marion Hayden

They would have to face that, of course, the woe in the boy

Until now his escapades had been boyish ones, a few debts frankly

revealed and as frankly regretted, so fever, quickly curbed But never woe, and already he noticed

so new in their relationship Natalie had always spoiled hi frequency, small consultations in her