Be reasonable, Warham." "For a good Christian," sneered he at Wright, "you're mighty easily convinced by a flimsy lie.

In your heart you know the boy has wronged her and that she's shielding him, just as----" There Warham checked himself; it would be anything but timely to remind Wright of the character of the girl's mother.
"I'll admit," said Mr.Wright smoothly, "that I wasn't overanxious for my boy's marriage with a girl whose mother was--unfortunate.

But if your charge had been true, Warham, I'd have made the boy do her justice, she being only seventeen.

Come, Sam." Sam slunk toward the door.

Warham stared fiercely at the elder Wright.