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"I have eyes and ears and soar He felt that his friend was expecting what he was saying "Mitchell is getting in his dotage, and he talks very freely to me at times"

"Surely not about--about me and Irene?" Mostyn said, a ripple of interest in his tone

"Oh yes, he quite lets hio now and then He thinks the sun rises and sets in you He is constantly talking about your rapid rise and keen business judgone so--so far as actually to speak of hter?" Mostyn said, tentatively

"I may as well tell you that he has" Saunders felt that the subject was a delicate one "At least, he has expressed the hope that you and she would care for each other He knew your father and liked hiht fancy so felloith no sort of chance in the world He speaks quite freely of her as his sole heiress, often showing ures of what he expects to leave her"

A touch of red appeared in Mostyn's cheeks "He is getting old and garrulous," he said "I really have been of soly in any venture he has ive youany one I suppose some e would, I a acrosssolely for the sake of old- fashioned love itself"

"What htfully "After all, very few men, at least here in the South, marry for convenience or financial advancement There is Stillman; he married a typewriter in his office, a beautiful character, and they are as happy as a pair of doves Then you remember Ab Thornton and Sam Thorpe Both of them could have tied up to money, I suppose, but somehow they didn't After all, it is the best test of a man"

"Yes, that certainly is true," Mostyn said, "the ideal is the thing I really believe I have two distinct sides to me--the romantic and the practical So you needn't count on--on what you were speaking of just now I think the young lady is somewhat like myself At ti that rides through them"