CHAPTER XIII

THE NEST IS ABANDONED Some days passed before Armitage had opportunity to confirm his first unfavorable impression of the gentleman he had selected from over a hundred million fellow-citizens for the honorable post of father-in-law. As happens in politics occasionally, his selection had been due to motives of policy rather than to his preëminent fitness for the place. Armitage realized with pained surprise that a man is almost as helpless in acquiring his relatives by marriage as his kindred by blood. You fell in l…