"I want to tell you that I am heartily ashamed of this whole affair and your connection with it, and since you refuse to make reparation in the only way possible for the wrong you and your associates have done Judge Rossmore--that is by saving him in the Senate--I think it only fair to warn you that I take back my word in regard to not marrying without your consent.

I want you to know that I intend to marry Miss Rossmore as soon as she will consent to become my wife, that is," he added with bitterness, "if I can succeed in overcoming her prejudices against my family--" Ryder, Sr.

laughed contemptuously.
"Prejudices against a thousand million dollars ?" he exclaimed sceptically.
"Yes," replied Jefferson decisively, "prejudices against our family, against you and your business practices.

Money is not everything.

One day you will find that out.