He was heart and soul with Ducconius all through the period of the suit.

His daughter is married to one of Ducconius' tenants and his younger son has taken one of Ducconius' farms since three of his tenant-families died off year before, last with the plague.

This makes old Chryseros Philargyrus by no means a pleasant tenant for me." "Old Love-Gold Love-Silver," Tanno commented, "is that a nickname or is it really his name ?" "Really his name," I affirmed.

"His mother was so extravagant and wasteful that his father named him Chryseros Philargyrus as a sort of antidote incantation, in the hope that it might prove a good omen of his disposition and predispose him to parsimony.

He certainly has turned out sufficiently close-fisted to justify the choice." "I don't understand your talk about tenantry," said Tanno.