"Here is another hundred dollars--that will cover it."

Ten minutes later Squire Carter left the farmhouse with a heavy frown
upon his face. He was bitterly disappointed, and the money did not
console him.

This was not the last of his disappointments. His brother's widow in New
York sued him for an accounting of his father's estate, and he was
obliged, not long afterward, to pay her five thousand dollars. This put
the widow and her son in a comfortable position, but seriously
embarrassed the squire, who had lost money by ill-advised speculation.

Two years later he had to sell his fine place and take a much humbler
one half a mile from the village. Conrad was obliged to seek a place,
and is bitterly humiliated because he receives but four dollars a week,
while the boy he used to look down upon is prosperous and successful.

Andy has sold out his property in Tacoma to such advantage that he
counts himself worth twenty thousand dollars. He continues to live in
handsome style with his friend, Walter Gale, and is to be taken into
partnership in the real estate office by Mr. Crawford when he attains
the age of twenty-one.

Of the less important characters in our story it may be said that Byron
Warden has had a story published in the nickel library, and is very
proud of this measure of success. He continues to write poems for the
_Century_ and other prominent magazines. They always come back to him
"respectfully declined," but he cherishes the hope that some day he will
receive a more favorable answer.