"Yes. I'm telling you what I heard. It may not

be right."

"Well, I wouldn't be surprised if it was," said Clif. "He sort of looks like—like somebody important. Was he here last year?"

"No, he's new. As for his looking important, maybe he does, Clif, but I don't know that the fact that his father is immensely wealthy gives him the right to!"

"Why, no, and I didn't mean just that, I guess. Still, his father is pretty well known, pretty prominent, aside from being rich, isn't he? You're always reading about him in the papers."

"Important in a financial way, certainly." Walter almost, but not quite, shrugged. "Any one who gets hold of fifty or sixty million dollars can get his name in the papers every day if he wants to. Sometimes it gets there when he doesn't want it to."

Walter smiled cynically.