"I'll arrange it, somehow," said the now confident and buoyant Driscoll.
He visited Mr. Cameron and gave satisfactory proof to the old gentleman that he was now the possessor of over twenty thousand dollars.
"But how did you gain the money so soon, boy?" said Mr. Cameron. "I heard that you lost a thousand or two."
Driscoll's face sobered. "I should think that no one better than you, Mr. Cameron, would understand the necessity on the part of a business man of keeping secret his methods and the relations of his business affairs. Pardon me—I am not yet your son-in-law."
"Right you are, Driscoll!" was the immediate response. "You're a business man, after all!"
It was not long before Driscoll became the son-in-law in fact. Then he told the whole story to his father-in-law.
"Hum! ha!" said the old gentleman, musingly.
CHAPTER XIX
AT BAY SOFTLY