"POOR PORSON" Upon the morning following his conversation with Morris, Colonel Monk spent two hours or more in the library.

Painfully did he wrestle there with balance-sheets, adding up bank books; also other financial documents.
"Phew!" he said, when at length the job was done.

"It is worse than I thought, a good deal worse.

My credit must be excellent, or somebody would have been down upon us before now.

Well, I must talk things over with Porson.