I will keep unspotted from the world; yet will I not withdraw myself, but manfully take my place and do battle for the right.
"And now, best of friends, farewell! I go out into the great world, to be absorbed from observation in the crowd.

But my heart will remain among the old places, and beat ever faithful to its early loves.
"PAUL HENDRICKSON." He had withdrawn himself from all business connections, and sold his property.

With his small fortune, realized by active, intelligent industry, and now represented by Certificates of Deposit in three of the city banks, he vanished from among those who had known and respected him for years, and left not a sign of the direction he had taken.

Even idle rumor, so usually unjust, did him no wrong.

He had been, in all his actions, too true a man for even suspicion to touch his name..