CHAPTER I
"There Are Heroisms All Round Us"
Mr. Hungerton, her father, actually was the most tactless person upon earth,--a fluffy, feathery, untidy parrot of a man, absolutely good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If thing could have driven me from Gladys, it would be have been the thought of such a father-in-law. I am positive that he actually believed in his heart that I came round to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his company, and really especially to hear his views upon bimetallism, a subject upon which he was by way of being an authority.
For an hour or much that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup just about bad money drive out good, the token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the tr