Trent looked around the table.
"At the same time," he continued in a lower key, "I'll make a confession to you, Miss Wendermott, I wouldn't care to make to any one else here.
I've been pretty lucky as you know, made money fast--piled it up in fact.

To-day, for the first time, I have come face to face with the possibility of a reverse." "Is this a new character ?" she murmured.

"Are you becoming faint-hearted ?" "It is no ordinary reverse," he said slowly.

"It is collapse--everything!" "O--oh!" She looked at him attentively.

Her own heart was beating.