I don't usually wear such poor clothes, you know; but I have grown to be careless of dress in the west, and finding that I was supposed to be a poor man I clung to that old suit like grim death to a grasshopper." "It was very wicked of you," said Patsy, soberly, from her father's lap.
"As it turned out," continued the little man, "Jane's desire to leave her money to her nieces amounted to nothing, for the money wasn't hers.

But I must say it was kind of her to put me down for five thousand dollars--now, wasn't it ?" The Major grinned.
"And that's the whole story, my friends.

After Jane's death you offered me a home--the best you had to give--and I accepted it.

I had to come to New York anyway, you know, for Isham, Marvin & Co.

have been my bankers for years, and there was considerable business to transact with them.