I am afraid," he added, "that it will be a longer time than I can afford to wait before I shall be able to do that out of the law." "If you don't mind my asking," said the general, "what are your resources?
I don't think you told me more than to give me to understand that your father's affairs were at a pretty low ebb.

Of course, I do not wish to pry into your affairs--" "Not at all," John interposed; "I am glad to tell you, and thank you for your interest.

I have about two thousand dollars, and there is some silver and odds and ends of things stored.

I don't know what their value might be--not very much, I fancy--and there were a lot of mining stocks and that sort of thing which have no value so far as I can find out--no available value, at any rate.

There is also a tract of half-wild land somewhere in Pennsylvania.