Say, what d'you reckon it's cost you to raise me from the start--first, last, and all over ?" Cheyne smiled.

"I've never kept track, but I should estimate, in dollars and cents, nearer fifty than forty thousand; maybe sixty.

The young generation comes high.

It has to have things, and it tires of 'em, and--the old man foots the bill." Harvey whistled, but at heart he was rather pleased to think that his upbringing had cost so much.

"And all that's sunk capital, isn't it ?" "Invested, Harve.