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Mr. Talbot made an effort to get Kenneth Oswald out on bail on the strength of the suspicions against Ellerton, but he failed.
Two or three days after the police had been set on the tracks of Ellerton, Kenneth received a visit from Walter Gray, who had from the first day of their meeting always behaved to him in the kindest and friendliest manner. He liked all Edith's people whom he knew, and often wondered if he would find her particular favourite Charlie superior to this quiet acute gentlemanly brother, whose character of being hard in business he had never realized in his experience, and who was a man who could do and did most liberal things. He had penetration with regard to character and the same accurate judgement as to the value of property which his father had, so it was difficult for either rogues or flatterers to take him in. Nothing succeeds like success. The Grays did not need to be hard to make their fortune larger. They did not spend half their income, and were always adding to their capital in judicious ways, and so long as the colony went ahead they could not fail to go ahead with it.