Have you any suspicion again' anybody, sir ?" He put the question sharply and abruptly, and Lionel Verner looked full in his face as he answered, "No, Robin." "Well, good-afternoon, sir." He turned away without another word.

Lionel gazed after him with true sympathy.

"He will never recover this blow," was Lionel Verner's mental comment.
But for this unfortunate occurrence, John Massingbird would have already departed from Verner's Pride.

The great bane of the two Massingbirds was, that they had been brought up to be idle men.

A sum of money had become theirs when Frederick came of age--which sum you will call large or small, as it may please you.