He was in the mind hotly to defend Captain Barstow from Mr.
Jarvice's insinuations, but he refrained.
"Then Barstow will know that I draw my allowance from you, and not from my grandfather," he stammered.

There was the trouble for Walter Hine.
If Barstow knew, Garratt Skinner would come to know.

There would be an end to the deference and the flatteries.

He would no longer be able to pose as the favorite of the great millionaire, Joseph Hine.

He would sink in Sylvia's eyes.