"A round sum! When did you say he was coming here?"
"On the first of next month; or, perhaps, before the end of this month."
"Good! Very good!"
"Good for what?" innocently inquired Craven Kyte.
"Good for his professional prospects, of course! The sooner he begins the better, isn't it?"
"Oh, yes; certainly!"
"And when does he go to Philadelphia?"
"Just as soon as he has selected his law office and set painters and glaziers and paper-hangers and upholsterers and such to fit it up. For no expense is to be spared, and the young lawyer is to set up in style. For such is the wish of his guardian."
"You know this?"
"Yes, I know it. One knows everything that anybody else knows in a small village like Wendover."