As he said this the other lady advanced toward him and smiled somewhat triumphantly as she held out her hand. Crandall grasped it and the first spirit sighed. Just as the spirit of wealth seemed about to speak, there was a shake at the office door, and Mr. John Crandall saw the spirits fade away. He rubbed his eyes and said to himself: "By George! I have been asleep. What a remarkably vivid dream that was." As he yawned and stretched his arms above his head, the impatient rattle at the door told him that at least was not a part of the dream. He arose and unlocked the door. "Hello, Mr. Bullion," he said, as that solid man came in. "You're late, aren't you." "Why, for that matter, so are you. You must have been absorbed in your accounts or you would have heard me sooner. I thought I would have to shake the place down." "Well, you know, the policeman sometimes tries the door and I thought at first it was he. Won't you sit down?" "Thanks! Don't care if I do. Busy tonight?" "Just got through." "Well, how are things going?" "Oh, slowly as usual. Slowly because we have not facilities enough, but we've got all the work we can do." "Does it pay you for what work you do?" "Certainly. I'm not in this business as a philanthropist, you know." "No. I didn't suppose you were. Now, see here, Crandall, I think you have a good thing of it here and one of the enterprises that if extended would develop into a big business." "I know it. But what am I to do? I've practically no capital to enlarge the business, and I don't care to mortgage what I have and pay a high rate of interest when, just at the critical moment, we might have a commercial crisis and I would then lose everything." "Quite right; quite right, and a safe principle. Well, that's what I came to see you about. I have had my eye on you and this factory for some time. Now, if you want capital I will furnish it on the condition that an accountant of mine examines the books and finds everything promising a fair return for enlarging the business. Of course I take your word for the state of affairs all right enough, but business is business, you know, and besides I want to get an expert opinion on how much enlargement it will stand. I suppose you could manage a manufactory ten or twenty times larger as easily as you do this one." "Quite," said Mr. Crandall. "Then what do you say to my coming round to-morrow at 9 with my man?" "That would suit me all right." Mr. John Crandall walked home a very much elated man that night. * * * * * "Well, doctor," said the patient in a very weak voice, "what is the verdict!" "It is just as I said before. You will have to take a rest. You know I predicted this breakdown." "Can't you give me something that will fix me up temporarily? It is almost imperative that I should stay on just now."