tended to do with it. For both were dreaming.
"Thir-ty thousand dollars!"
All day long the music of those inspiring words sang through those people's
heads.
From his marriage-day forth, Aleck's grip had been upon the purse, and Sally
had seldom known what it was to be privileged to squander a dime on non-necessities.
"Thir-ty thousand dollars!" the song went on and on. A vast sum,
an unthinkable sum!
All day long Aleck was absorbed in planning how to invest it, Sally in planning
how to spend it.
There was no romance-reading that night. The children took themselves away
early, for their parents were silent, distraught, and strangely unentertaining.
The good-night kisses might as well have been impressed upon vacancy, for all
the response they got; the parents were not aware of the kisses, and the children
had been gone an hour before their absence was noticed. Two pencils had been
busy during that hour--note-making; in the way of plans. It was Sally who broke
the stillness at last. He
