Elgin, with its finer palate for sensation, saw in it heightened chances, both for Lorne and for the case; and if any ratepayer within its limits had remained indifferent to the suit, the fact that one side of it had been confided to so young and so "smart" a fellow townsman would have been bound to draw him into the circle of speculation.

Youth in a young country is a symbol wearing all its value.

It stands not only for what it is.

The trick of augury invests it, at a glance, with the sum of its possibilities, the augurs all sincere, confident, and exulting.

They have been justified so often; they know, in their wide fair fields of opportunity, just what qualities will produce what results.