In consequence he could not afford to overlook any of the points; so, before dressing for dinner, he paid a quiet visit to the greenhouses.
That evening, while he was bowling with all the earnestness that in him lay, Josephine Stevens, resisting the importunities of young Hollis for some music, sat by her father.
"Father," she asked after long and sober thought, "was it right for you, knowing Mr.Turner to be after that walnut lumber, to try to get it away from him by telephoning ?" "It certainly was!" he replied emphatically.

"Turner went down there with a deliberate intention of buying that lumber before I could get it, so that he could sell it to me at as big a gain as possible.

I paid him one thousand dollars profit for his contract.

I had struggled my best to beat him to it; only I was too late.

Both of us were playing the game according to the rules, but he is a younger player." "I see." Another long pause.