Her conduct on this occasion made an impression on my mind that has never been erased.

When I grew older she explained to me about my father's affairs, and uncancelled debts, and I resolved that I would liquidate every just claim against him, and take from his memory even the shadow of a reproach.

To this end I have labored late and early; to-day I have paid the last claim against him, and I am a free man." "But how came you to find me and pay me to-day ?" "I was purchasing in Jones & Brother's store, when you came in to borrow money, and I heard Jones tell his younger brother that he was so sorry that he could not help you, and feared that you would be ruined." "Who is he ?" said I, "for out West I had lost track of you." "He is Paul Clifford, a friend of your father's.

Can you help him?
He is perfectly reliable.

We would trust him with ten thousand dollars if we had it.