"I may as well keep it," reflected Philip. "It will probably amount
to nothing, but there won't be much trouble in carrying around the
envelope." He also found a note of hand for a thousand dollars,
signed by Thomas Graham.

Attached to it was a slip of paper, on which he read, also in his
father's writing:

"This note represents a sum of money lent to Thomas Graham, when I
was moderately prosperous. It is now outlawed, and payment could not
be enforced, even if Graham were alive and possessed the ability to
pay. Five years since, he left this part of the country for some
foreign country, and is probably dead, and I have heard nothing from
him in all that time. It will do no harm, and probably no good, to
keep his note."

"I will keep it," decided Philip. "It seems that this and the mining
shares are all that father had to leave me. They will probably never
yield me a cent, but I will keep them in remembrance of him."

Phillip found his father's watch. It was an old-fashioned gold
watch, but of no great value even when new. Now, after twenty years'
use, it would command a very small price at the coming sale.

Ever since Philip had been old enough to notice anything, he
remembered this watch, which was so closely identified with his
father that more than anything else it called him to mind. Philip
looked at it wistfully as it lay in his hand. "I wish I could keep
it," he said to himself. "No one else will value it much, but it
would always speak to me of my father. I wonder if I might keep it?"