With fads enough to put him in the insane asylum if people did not prefer to keep him out of it to help 'em.

Always believing in everybody, until they actually believe in themselves, and shake him! And he's got a wife that's making a fool of herself, and I shouldn't wonder in time--of him!" Demorest pressed his hand over his partner's mouth.

"Come, Jim! You know you never really liked that marriage, simply because you thought that old man Carter made a good thing of it.

And you never seem to have taken into consideration the happiness Barker got out of it, for he DID love the girl.

And he still is happy, is he not ?" he added quickly, as Stacy uttered a grunt.
"As happy as a man can be who has his child here with a nurse while his wife is gallivanting in San Francisco, and throwing her money--and Lord knows what else--away at the bidding of a smooth-tongued, shady operator." "Does HE complain of it ?" asked Demorest.
"Not he; the fool trusts her!" said Stacy curtly.
Demorest laughed.