Raymond cut a part of his own contribution out of Albert's allowance, and there was better reason than ever why Albert should not take a long trip for only four or five days at home.
IV
It is tiresome, I know, to read about municipal reform; most of us want the results and not the process—and some of us not even the results. And it is no less tiresome to read about investments, unless we are dealing with some young knight of finance who strives successfully for his lady's favor and who, successful, lives with her ever after in the style to which her father has accustomed her. But in the case of a maladroit man of fifty....
I had asked Raymond to call on me with any new scheme that was taking his attention, and one forenoon he walked in.
He had an envelope of loose papers. He laid some of them on my desk and thumbed a few others with an undecided expression.
"What do you think of this?" he asked. "I've got to have more money, and here's something that may bring it in."
It was a speculative industrial affair in Upper Michigan. I saw some familiar names attached—among them that of John W. McComas, though not prominently.
"I'll find out for you," I said.