To be sure the method was not lawful, yet was advised by a lawyer, and agreed to by the administrators.

Besides, the keeping of a few promiscuous charities out of such a gift did not seem especially wrong--I knew nothing, cared nothing for their loss.

They were but names of no significance.

Vail, watching the expression of my face in the light, seemed to divine my thoughts.
"Evidently you are recovering your good sense," he remarked easily.
"There is no use acting like a fool in a matter of this kind.

You are lucky to fall into such a chance.