"SIR--Upon reflection, I feel that I ought not to receive from you
the money that was due to me when you became unfortunate some years
ago. I understand that you have a large family, that your health is
not very good, and that you are depriving the one of comforts, and
injuring the other, in endeavouring to pay off your old debts. To
cancel these obligations would be all right--nay, your duty--if you
could do so without neglecting higher and plainer duties. But you
cannot do this, and I cannot receive the money you paid me this
morning. Take it back, and let it be expended in making your family
more comfortable. I have enough, and more than enough for all my
wants, and I will not deprive you of a sum that must be important,
while to me it is of little consequence either as gained or lost.

EDWARD PETRON."

The letter dropped from the tailor's hand; he was overcome with
emotion. His wife, when she understood its purport, burst into
tears.

The merchant's sleep was sweeter that night than it had been for
some time, and so was the sleep of the poor debtor.

The next day Mr. Moale called to see Mr. Petron, to whom, at the
instance of the latter, he gave a full detail of his actual
circumstances. The merchant was touched by his story, and prompted
by true benevolence to aid him in his struggles. He saw most of the
tailor's old creditors, and induced those who had not been paid in
full to voluntarily relinquish their claims, and some of those who
had received money since the poor man's misfortunes, to restore it
as belonging of right to his family. There was not one of these