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Graham pondered that, too

"What about the new place?"

"It's too soon to discuss that We are obligated to do a certain amount

Of course it would be wise to cut where we can"

Graham smiled

"She'll raise the deuce of a roas his comment

It had never occurred to him before to take sides between his father and

hisin hi that they were, in a way, o to him with the Anna Klein situation

He would have, probably, but a fellow felt an awful fool going to

soirl was in love with him, and what the

dickens was he to do about it?

He wondered, too, if anybody would believe that his relationship with

Anna was straight, under the circu her money, out of a sheer sense of responsibility for her

beating and her illness He took no credit for altruism He knew quite

well the possibilities of the situation He made no promises to himself

But such attraction as Anna had had for hiain she was girl, and that was all And the

attraction was very faint now He was only sorry for her