"Yes. Why not? He is a fine business man, and he has large interests
of his own. Have you any objection?"

"Oh, I don't know. Of course not!" she added quickly, as she caught
sight of a rather odd look on her aunt's face. "If we have to - I mean
if you find it necessary, you can ask his advice, I suppose."

"Wouldn't you?"

"Why, yes, I believe I would - just as a matter of business."

Viola's voice was calm and cool, but it might have been because her
attention was focused on a bundle of papers she was taking from the safe.
And a casual perusal of these showed that they had a bearing on subjects
that might explain certain things.

"Look, Aunt Mary!" the girl exclaimed. "Father seems to have kept a
diary. It tells - it tells about that trouble he had with Harry - Rather,
it wasn't with Harry at all. It was Harry's uncle. It's that same old
trouble father so often referred to. He always declared he was cheated
in a certain business deal, but I always imagined it was because he
didn't make as much money as he thought he ought to. Father was like
that. But see-this puts a different face on it."

Together they looked over the papers, and among them-among the memoranda,
copies of contracts and other documents - was a diary, or perhaps it
might be called a business man's journal. Both Viola and her aunt were
familiar enough with business to understand the import of what they read.