"Bob!" she whispered half-aloud. "Bob!"
Zenas Henry drew her closer.
"What does the girl want with money," he demanded, "when she's got a
man like that? He's better than all the money on earth."
"But she'll get the money just the same, Zenas Henry," piped Captain
Jonas. "She'll get it. Have you thought of that?"
"It will be Bob's money, not mine," returned Delight with shy dignity.
CHAPTER XXIII
FAME COMES TO THE DREAMER OF DREAMS
Richard Galbraith returned thoughtfully over the Harbor Road not sorry
at the turn affairs had taken. The honorable and magnanimous thing had
been done with the Lee fortune, and it had been firmly and proudly
refused. Now it could go unreservedly to Robert Morton for whom the
financier had a particular regard and in whose wisdom to make a
sensible use of it he felt every confidence. The money would not only
place the young man in a position to marry without delay, but
indirectly its benefits would reach the two individuals that Madam Lee
would most earnestly have desired to help.
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