CHAPTER IX.
THE OLD KENNELS.
On the next morning Mrs.Morton asked her grandson what he meant to do with reference to his suggested invitation to Reginald.

"As you will not meet him of course I have given up the idea," he said.
The "of course" had been far from true.

He had debated the matter very much with himself.

He was an obstinate man, with something of independence in his spirit.

He liked money, but he liked having his own way too.