Why don't you simply throw the whole thing up ?" "But I've given my word to your cousin Henry." "Yes, but only your WORD.

There was no written agreement.

And you couldn't even hold him to it." Barker opened his frank eyes in astonishment.

Her own cousin, too! And they were Stacy's very words! "Besides," added Mrs.Barker audaciously, "he could get rid of it elsewhere.

He had another offer, but he thought yours the best.