There is a man there who deals in such things.

I should think he would be due to-morrow morning.

Well, I shall look forward to seeing you all before very long.

I have rather outstayed my time, for I am a man of routine, and I always put in a certain number of hours in my laboratory." He shook hands cordially with them all, and lighting his pipe at the doorstep, strolled off upon his way.
"Well, what do you think of him now ?" asked Robert, as they watched his black figure against the white snow.
"I think that he is no more fit to be trusted with all that money than a child," cried the old man.

"It made me positively sick to hear him talk of moving hills and buying tigers, and such-like nonsense, when there are honest men without a business, and great businesses starving for a little capital.