‘Why did you not take them?’

‘What; rob my own boy?’

’When you tell me that you are absolutely in want of money to pay your own bills, and that he has not hesitated to take yours from you!  Why does he not repay you what he has borrowed?’

’Ah, indeed;—­why not?  He ought to if he has it.  And there were papers there;—­I.O.U.’s signed by other men.’

‘You looked at them.’

’I saw as much as that.  It is not that I am curious but one does feel about one’s own son.  I think he has bought another horse.  A groom came here and said something about it to the servants.’

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