“Tell me about it. I am satisfied that you have gleaned all there is in it.”
“Oh, it isn’t much; only one of Jimmy’s old tricks.”
“Old tricks? How is that?”
“Why, he has condescended to permit a reporter to interview him—about his wife.”
“Ah! There ought to be some meat in that—for me.”
“I think there is. That is why I was so interested in it.”
“Tell me about it.”
“There is more than a column and a half in the story that the reporter tells about the interview.”
“Yes? Well?”
“The account starts in by giving a resumé of the case. It tells how Mr. Ledger Dinwiddie, the last of his race, broken in fortune, land-poor, left his home in despair before he was seventeen, and had never been heard of since then until a short time ago, when he suddenly reappeared, bringing with him a beautiful wife.”