"You ought to know better than I, Mr. Vernon," replied the lawyer quietly.
"Don't I get my usual allowance?"
"No; Mrs. Vernon has instructed me to give you a hundred and fifty dollars monthly after this."
"Why, that is only eighteen hundred a year!"
"You are right, sir."
"But I was getting three thousand."
For answer to this Mr. Farley merely shrugged his shoulders.
"It is an outrage!" went on the young man.
"If you don't want to take the money you don't have to," said the lawyer coldly. He was utterly disgusted with Frederic Vernon's manner.
"I'll have to take it," groaned Vernon. "But how I am to live on a hundred and fifty a month I don't know."