"_See abt road M-- D--
See L
See E & M tea-set
See abt L_."


Translated into long-hand, this reads: "See about the street-car
road, Marston (the superintendent) and Dane (the lawyer).
See Lossing, see Esther and Maggie, and remember about tea-set.
See about Lossing."

His memoranda written, he slipped the book in his pocket,
reflecting cynically, "There's habit! I've no need of writing that.
It's not pleasant enough to forget!"

Thirty odd years ago, Horatio Armorer--they called him 'Raish, then--
had left the town to seek his fortune in Chicago. It was his
daydream to wrestle a hundred thousand dollars out of the world's
tight fists, and return to live in pomp on Brady Street hill!
He should drive a buggy with two horses, and his wife should keep
two girls. Long ago, the hundred thousand limit had been reached
and passed, next the million; and still he did not return.
His father, the Presbyterian minister, left his parish, or, to be exact,
was gently propelled out of his parish by the disaffected;
the family had a new home; and the son, struggling to help them out
of his scanty resources, went to the new parish and not to the old.
He grew rich, he established his brothers and sisters in prosperity,
he erected costly monuments and a memorial church to his parents
(they were beyond any other gifts from him); he married, and lavished