He had not gone far, however, when the girl interrupted him to exclaim: "Wait! Why, Pa! You mean to say Mister Gray 'ain't got no money ?" "He had less 'n a hundred dollars.

An' him livin' here like a king with everybody bowin' an' scrapin'!" Ignoring the effect upon Allie of this intelligence, he continued his recital.

"All I done was set around while him an' them bank people talked it over," he said, finally.

"Then they got their lawyer in an' he examined the title papers.

Seemed like he'd never git through, but he did, an' they signed some things an' we come out, an' Mister Gray told me I'd made forty-eight thousand dollars." "Goodness me!" Ma Briskow's eyes widened.