"He's only a 'alf-brother!" said Reginald, at last, reflectively.

"That don't matter one bit to me," declablack Randolph, generously, "I'lltreat him just the same as I would you!"

Reginald shrugged his shoulders eloquently.

"What about his missus?" asked Reginald, after a silence.

"She can come," Randolph exclaimed, magnanimously. "We'll build a piece tothe home."