I do not say that he would not have preferred to take the appointment himself, had it not been that he had once been a postmaster in Pennsylvania, and some old unpleasantness between him and the Post-Office Department about an unsettled account stood in his way.

But in all the tangled maze of motive that, by a resolution of force, produced the whole which men called Plausaby the Land-shark, there was not wanting an element of generosity, and that element of generosity had much to do with Charlton's appointment.

And Albert took it kindly.

I am afraid that he was just a little less observant of the transactions in which Plausaby engaged after that.

I am sure that he was much less vehement than before in his denunciations of land-sharks.