Peewee began to comprehend. Lampert might not expect his father to agree to all that he was going to ask, but his father would agree to part of it. Peewee knew the ways of chicanery, for he had lived among people who practiced them and talked about them, and he had heard people say that they would like to get a rich man into the position which his father would be in. When Lampert had received in the beginning as much as he could get, he would begin to ask for more. There would be no place where his father would find it possible to stop, until perhaps Peewee even owned his father's trucks, as Lampert had promised him. For his father, when he had once commenced giving, could not escape from Lampert except by openly acknowledging Peewee, and he would not do this because of Mrs. Markyn. Peewee could have all these things. Perhaps, besides that, he could still see Mrs. Markyn without her knowing who he was.
But he felt, he discovered, uncomfortable when he thought of seeing Mrs. Markyn. It would be ridiculous, he had comprehended pre-
