"Here is a check for five hundred dollars, made payable to you by Mr.Henry Hammond.

You have five minutes in which to cash it, before the bank closes.

I'll tell you the story of it later.

I haven't time now." The First National Bank was just around the corner, and three minutes later Mr.Harlowe walked in, accompanied by Grace and Eleanor, and cashed the check without any trouble.
"Tom Harlowe must have made money on some deal with Hammond," thought the cashier, as he closed the window.

"He is about the only one who has that I know of." "And now, daughter, whose money is this, and what is it all about ?" asked her father gravely, as they left the bank.
"I can have no better confidant than my father," declared Grace, and she thereupon told him the whole story.
Mr.Harlowe heard her story with mingled emotions of pride and disapproval.
"Never take such a risk again, Grace," he said sternly.