I looked at my accounts next morning, and found that Pearson had only credited me with one-third of the amount he must have received, so I at once dismissed him.

Indeed, I had been thinking of doing so some little time before, for money is so scarce and the price of produce so low that I felt I could not afford to pay as much as I had been giving him." "I am afraid I have been drawing rather heavily, mother," Vincent put in.
"I have plenty of money, Vincent.

Since your father's death we have had much less company than before, and I have not spent my income.

Besides, I have a considerable sum invested in house property and other securities.

But I have, of course, since the war began been subscribing toward the expenses of the war--for the support of hospitals and so on.
I thought at a time like this I ought to keep my expenses down to the lowest point, and to give the balance of my income to the State." "How did Jonas take his dismissal, mother ?" "Not very pleasantly," Mrs.Wingfield replied, "especially when I told him that I had discovered he was robbing me.