I'm in the brokerage business.

But my chief business is looking after the Sherwood interests.

You see, my mother--father died ten years before she did--my mother, being dotty about the innate superiority of the male, left me in control of practically everything, and I do as well by it as the more important occupation of farming will permit.

Which completes the racy history of myself." "I'm sorry I can't reciprocate." "That's all right, Captain Nemo.

There's plenty of time--and it doesn't make any difference, anyhow." For all his light manner and careless chatter, Larry had a sense that Dick had been sizing him up all this while; that, in fact, to do this was the real purpose of the present call.