“For the high honour you once paid me. I shall expect great things of you, Billy.”

As the train started, he gripped John’s hand:

“Remember, we stand together. We are Grahams—I’ll hold you to your promise!”

John saw Ackerman join Susie and caught the sudden flash of his keen eye.

He touched his lip in sign of warning to Billy and waved his hand.

“I’ll remember! Good luck!”

CHAPTER VII—THE DAUGHTER OF EVE

STELLA had piled on the big oblong oak table in the library the letters and legal documents relating to her father’s estate.