Two masters may manage to scramble along in the same
house, but two mistresses never can, and Dora and Gretchen would not be
congenial. Good morning, gentlemen!' and he bowed himself from the room,
leaving Frank covered with confusion and shame as he felt that he was
beaten.
The physicians did not think it a case in which they were warranted to
interfere. Neither could conscientiously sign a certificate which should
declare Arthur a lunatic, and their advice to Frank was that he should
suffer his brother to have his own way in his own house, and when he
felt that he could not bear with his idiosyncracies he could go
elsewhere. But it was this going elsewhere which Frank did not fancy;
and, after a consultation with his wife, he decided to let matters take
their course for a time at least, or until Gretchen came, if she ever
did.
Arthur's allusion to the sums of money his brother had appropriated to
his own use had warned Frank that he was not quite so indifferent or
ignorant of his business affairs as he had seemed, and this of itself
served to keep him quiet and patient during the confusion which ensued,
as walls were torn down, and doors and windows cut, while the house was
filled with workmen, and the sound of the hammer and saw was heard from
morning till night.
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