"I wish he bore the Bannister name," said the Judge. "Becky is the only Bannister."
After the death of her husband Mrs. Beaufort had come to live with the Judge. Truxton's boyhood had been spent on the old estate. The Judge's income was small, and Truxton had known few luxuries. Like the rest of the boys of the Bannister family he was studying law at the University. He and Randy had been classmates, but had gone into different branches of the service.
"When he comes back," the Judge told Mary, "he must show the stuff he is made of. I can't have him selling cars around the county like Randy Paine."
"Well, Randy has sold a lot of them," said Mary. "Father has given him an order——"
"You don't mean to say that Bob Flippin is going to buy a car——"
"He is."
"He didn't dare tell me," the Judge said; "what's he going to do with his horses?"
"Keep them," said Mary serenely; "the car is for Mother—she's going to drive it herself."
The Judge, with a vision of Mollie Flippin's middle-aged plumpness upon him, exclaimed: "You