"In fact, it's possible I may have to come up now and then on business." There was a silence for a few seconds, and then he added rather nervously,-- "By the way, mother, about the L50.

I had intended to ask Mr Richmond to advance it, although I should have hated to do so.

But now, I was wondering--do you think there would be any objection to taking it out of our money, and letting it be invested in my name in the Corporation?
It really wouldn't make any difference, for you'd get exactly the same interest for it as you got through Mr Richmond; and, of course, the principal would belong to you too." "I see no objection," said Mrs Cruden.

"It's our common stock, and if we can use it for the common good, so much the better." "Thanks," said Reginald.

"If you wouldn't mind sending a line to Mr Richmond's clerk to-morrow, he could let me have the cheque to take down or Monday with me." The three days that followed were dismal ones for the three Crudens.
There are few miseries like that of an impending separation.