“Very, very much; it means the world to us—to Alan, to father and mother, and—yes, to me. I hunger for independence.”
“Then it shall be done,” he said, fervently.
XXXII
S the elevator in the big building was taking Rayburn Miller up to the offices of the Southern Land and Timber Company, many reflections passed hurriedly through his mind.
“You are going to get the usual cold shoulder from Wilson,” he mused; “but he 'll put it up against something about as warm as he's touched in many a day. If you don't make him squirm, it will be only because you don't want to.”