I've wanted to test myself and find what I was worth--as a worker." He leaned a little closer.

"I say, mother," he said confidentially, "you remember that little explanation I just gave you of my absence." "About your trip in that high-powered automobile ?" "That was just a high-powered fib.

Just a bit of diplomatic romance--for Olivetta's consumption." "Then where have you been ?" demanded Mrs.De Peyster.
"Prospecting.

Prospecting to find out just how much that hundred thousand or two or three you've sunk in me is worth.

And I've found out.