"I can only hope that as you grow older you will grow wiser.

Well, you had better come up and have a talk with me about the assets your uncle mentions in his will." "Then you don't know anything about them, sir ?" "Nothing at all, except as to the accumulations in his absence.

He mentioned vaguely that he was a wealthy man.

I thought that, as a matter of course, he had told his brother all about it." "It is a curious business, sir, and I doubt if there will ever be anything besides the accumulations you speak of." "Bless me, you don't say so! Well, well, I always thought that it was the most foolish business that I ever heard of.

However, you shall tell me all about it when you come up.