et the check from Mr. Spe

Herbert, "you will get it b

the interest to Squire Leech

much

o dollars

gold I handed

, Herbert; I want you t

ying the interest as you, moth

er overcame her scruples, and laid aside enou

e Leech was seen advancing to the

her!" said Herbert.

Herbert?" asked the squ

Won't you

ll. I have a little matt

ot on account of his size, but because he seemed so swollen with a sense of his own importance a

Squire Leech,"

am. I apprehend yo

me for the intere

. Of course you are

ady, nor, for reasons which we know, did he desire it. He was rather discomfite

full?" queried

s,

red to pay the

s,

g intelligence, but it was not. T

ing a receipt,"

g materials," said

peared almost instantly

with a disappointed air, and sl

who was quick in reading the faces of others. "I wonde

receipt. Still he did not seem inclined to go. He was

rty-five dollars a year seem

urprised. Could it be that he intended to re

ean, of course. You've got to earn

id the mother. "When he is o

g of your case, Mrs. Carter, and as a man of busine

aid the widow, meekly. "Of course your judgment

ation with eager interest. What

, deliberately, "that it would be a g

rs. Carter, in surprise.

uple of rooms for yo

in anything," interrupted Herber

some money down for the house,

ody would want to buy

xtraordinary consideration. "I don't know that it would be of any particular use to me. I

Herbert, who somehow suspected that the squire was mo

e look, "over and above the mortgage, I would

the place only ten hundred and

sider it worth any m

fifteen hundred dollars," said

r madam, that is utterly preposterous. Fifte

," said Herbe

quire. "I don't believe it cost a

to show that it cost fifte

now as much about real estate as any man in town," he proceeded, pompously. "Indeed, I ow

ell," said the widow,

quire, who saw the prize slipping through his fingers, and felt it necessary to

think of selling for any su

mother, "I don'

id the squire, impatiently; "and you, Herbert, are

, independently. "I ought to fe

Boys of your age should be seen and

st for my mother's in

ou. I consider your interference impert

a little in awe of the great man of the

I'm sure he's wrong in thinking I h

in knowing that you had three hundred and fifty dollars on interest in the savings bank. I admit that I may not offer you

lt-in this house I have passed many happy years-and while we can keep it, Herbert

y ridiculous," said the impatient squire, rising to go. "I'll gi

elf, as he left the cottage. "I won't be balked