all happiness just because you had money.

"My father had died too, and the old farm had been sold. My brother
and sisters had gone--some were married and some had died. I found I
was a lonesome old man, with few friends, and hardly any relatives,
left. I had been too busy getting rich, you see, to take time to make
friends.

"Well, I didn't know what to do. All the while, you understand, I had
been counting on going back to the farm, with a lot of money, and
saying to my father: 'Now, daddy, you've worked hard enough. You can
stop now, and have happiness the rest of your life.' But you see my
father wasn't there. I was too late.

"So I made up my mind the best thing I could do was to buy back the
old farm, and spend the rest of my days there, for the sake of old
times. Well, I did buy the place, and I named it 'Snow Lodge,' for
there used to be lots of snow there in the winter time. I fixed the
old house all over new, put in a furnace, and other things to make it
comfortable, and I lived there for some time.

"I heard from some of my brothers and sisters who had also gone away
from the farm, and one of my sisters, who had married a man named
Burdock, had become very poor. Her husband had died, and she was very
sick. I brought her to Snow Lodge to live with me, and her son, Harry,
a fine lad, came along.

"My poor sister did not live very long, and when she died I took Henry
Burdock to live with me. I felt toward him as toward a son, and for
years we stayed in Snow Lodge together.