John Grier does as much thinking in an hour as most of us do in a month, and with Tarboe he'll beat you dead.

Tarboe is young; he's got the vitality of a rhinoceros.

He knows the business from the bark on the tree.

He's a flyer, is Tarboe, and you might have been in Tarboe's place and succeeded to the business." Fabian threw out his arms.

"But no! Father might live another ten years--though I don't think so--and I couldn't have stood it.