Uneasy Money

ever came before his mental eye he certainly did not allow it to interfere with his appreciation of the festivities. At Frolics in the Air, whither they moved a

that this could not last, that--since his Uncle Ira had played

was contemplating an eternity of the company of Nutty and his two companions, the end came. Miss Leonard said that she was tired. Her friend said that it was a

ndred yards. But Miss Leonard's hotel was in the neighbourhood of Washington Square, and it was N

nard, drowsily--she was half-aslee

ld me. I only me

ing else. It'--Miss Leonard

mean, "Lord

ast, he was when I

e you met hi

Captain Delaney gave at Oddy's. There can't

ce stimulated Miss Leonard into a te

wish I could remember his name. I almost had it a doz

atigued and he felt himself unequal to g

it was something about a house. I

fell from him

can'

t

ad closed and she spo

you s

m-

ga

could not put them to her. A gentleman cannot prod a lady--and his guest, at that--in the ribs in

self William Chalmers, but that was no reason why he should not have done so. And Da

ed his mind to rapid thought. He had decided as a first step in the following up of this matter to invite Bill down to Elizabeth's farm, and the thought occurred to him that this

he man who had robbed him of his inheritance. He had worked on Bill's feelings so successfully as to elicit a loan of a million dollars, and was just procee

, whether this was the New York custom, to foregather again after a party had been broken up, and chat

l you that I was going down to the country to-morrow. I wondered

This was better th

said. 'Than

eel like getting up early. I'll call for you here at half-past six, and we'll have an early din

ear c

,' said Nutty, closing