WYLDER'S BAfCD.
-when family and property go together, may accomplish.
There are the Dodminsters. Do you think they would
ever have got their title by any other means? There
are the Forresters " —
"I know it all, Stanley; and at once I say, go on. I
thought you must have formed some political project,
Mr. Wealdon has been with you so often; but you tell
me nothing, Stanley."
"Not, darling, till I know it myself This plan, for
instance, until you spoke this moment, was but a ques-
tion, and one which I could not submit until I had seen
Wealdon, and heard how matters stood, and what chances
of success I should really have. So, darling, you have it
all; and I am so glad you advise me to go on. It is
five-and-thirty years since anyone connected with Bran-
don came forward. But it will cost a great deal of money,
Dorkie."
"Yes, I know. I've always heard it cost my uncle
and Sir William Camden fifteen thousand pounds."
"Yes, it will be expensive, Wealdon thinks—very,
this time. It often struck me as a great mistake, that,
where there is a good income, and a position to be main-
tained, there is not a little put by every year to meet
cases like this."
"I do not think there is much money. You know,
Stanley."
"Whatever there is, is under settlement, and we can-
not apply it, Dorkie. The only thing to be done. it
*t rikes me, is to sell a part of Five Oaks."
"I'll not sell any property, Stanley."
"And what do you propose, then?"
"I don't know. I don't understand these things. But
there are ways of getting money by mortgages and loans,
and paying them off without losing the property."