I will enter my extreme old age in the race against your healthy youth.

I will proffer my three or four remaining years to her as against the fifty you may be able to give her.

Go and see her at once.

Then come back here to me and tell me what she says." And so it was that Braden Thorpe returned, as he had agreed to do, to the home of the man who had robbed him of his greatest possession,--faith in woman.

He found his grandfather seated in the library, in front of a half- dead fire.