MONEY MATTERS 179 



" Faith, perhaps you're right," said he. 



" I know I am right. It is only by saving and 

 scraping that we will tide over these four months. 

 Now you have that money in the bank. We 

 calculated that it will just cover your racing ex- 

 penses; the money you will require for bringing 

 the horse to Colonel What's-his-name's stable at 

 Epsom before the race, the money you will require 

 for backing the horse — in fact, for the whole 

 business, leaving fifty pounds over, in case of 

 disaster." 



" Yes." 



" Well, I want you to lock your cheque-book 

 up in a drawer and give me the key, and promise 

 not to touch that money on any accoimt." 



" I won't touch it," said French, with the air of 

 a schoolboy making a resolution about apples. 



" I know that's what you say and feel now, but 

 there are temptations, and it is vital that you 

 should be out of the way of temptation. You re- 

 member Jason, and how he stopped his ears with 

 wax not to hear the songs of the sirens? " 



" Faith," said French in a tender tone, and quite 

 forgetting that it was Jason's crew who were 

 stoppered as to the ears, " if the sirens' voices were 

 as sweet as — " He checked himself. 



" That may be," said Miss Grimshaw, hurriedly, 

 " but, sweet or not sweet, there are always voices 

 calhng for money; even coming through London 

 a five-pound note went on nothing. So you must 

 please put that cheque-book in a drawer and 



