He had been foolish enough to think that the thing he desired so passionately was of equal value in the estimation of others.

He saw now that he was wrong, and he then remembered that he had never found Judge Rawdon to evince either interest or curiosity about the family home.
If he had been a keen observer, the Judge's face when he called might have given his comfortable feelings some pause.

It was contracted, subtle, intricate, but he came forward with a congratulation on Mostyn's improved appearance.

"A few weeks at the seaside would do you good," he added, and Mostyn answered, "I think of going to Newport for a month." "And then ?" "I want your opinion about that.

McLean advises me to see the country--to go to Chicago, St.Louis, Denver, cross the Rockies, and on to California.