16/35 However, I have not time to talk to-day. We will go into the matter, Val, after Monday, when this race has come off, and see what arrangement can be made for you. There's only one thing bothers me." "What's that ?" "The danger that it may be a wasted arrangement. If you are only set up on your legs to come down again, as you have before, it will be so much waste of time and money; so much loss, to me, of temper. Don't you see, Val ?" Percival Elster stopped in his walk, and withdrew his arm from his brother's; his face and voice full of emotion. |