To cut matters short, it will be for your interest to pay this claim, and not allow the story to be made known.
It would damage your reputation." In the end this was what the squire was forced very unwillingly to do.
The amount he had to pay to the estate of the man whose family he had sought to defraud was nearly fifteen hundred dollars.

This, added to Ben's four thousand, made the family very comfortable.

Mr.Kirk was compelled to look elsewhere for a house.

No one was more chagrined at the unexpected issue of the affair than Tom Davenport, whose mean and jealous disposition made more intense his hatred of Ben.
* * * * * * * * * Several years have elapsed.

Ben is in the office of a real estate lawyer in New York, as junior partner.