similar case. But it is so pleasant to discourse on evil in our
neighbour. So very pleasant! The good he does is left to find its
own way to the light as best it can; but let him commit a mistake or
make a single false step, and it is preached from house-top."

When Grant and Harrison met, there was a mutual reserve and
coldness.

"He is conscious, I am aware, of his wrong dealing," said the latter
to himself, "and therefore shuns me."

"He is aware that he has tried to injure me," said the former, "and
cannot, therefore, meet me as of old."

Two or three weeks passed before the friends who used to drop in to
see him almost every day showed themselves in his shop, and then
there was a too evident change of manner. They appeared distant and
reserved, and he met them with a like exterior. His pride was
touched.

"Just as they like," he said to himself. "I can get on without them.
I presume, if all our hearts were laid open, mine would be found
quite as good as theirs. As for Perkins and Marvel, they needn't set
themselves up over me. I think I know them. Men who cut as close as
they do in dealing, generally cut a little from the side that
doesn't belong to them."

Perkins and Marvel, here alluded to, had long been on friendly terms
with Mr. Grant--visiting at his shop--for the purpose of a little
friendly chit-chat--every few days. But a coldness now took place,