Frankly, I should tell her everything--if there is anything more to be told." When dinner was over, the nurse gone back to the patient and Captain Harrison to his club, Cutty lit his odoriferous pipe and patrolled the windows of his study.

Ever since Kitty's departure he had been mulling over in his mind a plan regarding her future--to add a codicil to his will, leaving her five thousand a year, so Molly's girl might always have a dainty frame for her unusual beauty.

The pity of it was that convention denied him the pleasure of settling the income upon her at once, while she was young.

He might outlive her; you never could tell.
Anyhow, he would see to the codicil.

An accident might step in.
He got out his chrysoprase.