have?”

Which was pretty sporting for a boy whose American training had been what Giddy’s had been.

Giddy’s father, on the death of old Gideon, proved himself much more expert at dispensing the paper mill money than at accumulating it. After old Madame Gory’s death just one year following that of her husband, Winnebago saw less and less of the three remaining members of the royal family. The frame house on the river bluff would be closed for a year or more at a time. Giddy’s father rather liked Winnebago and would have been content to spend six months of the year in the old Gory house, but Giddy’s mother, who had been a Leyden, of New York, put that idea out of his head pretty effectively.

“Don’t talk to me,” she said,