CHAPTER XXVIII.
_AFTER THE STORM_.
The painful and unfortunate crises of life often arise and darken like a thunder-storm, and seem for the moment perfectly terrific and overwhelming; but wait a little, and the cloud sweeps by, and the earth, which seemed about to be torn to pieces and destroyed, comes out as good as new.

Not a bird is dead; not a flower killed: and the sun shines just as he did before.

So it was with John's financial trouble.

When it came to be investigated and looked into, it proved much less terrible than had been feared.

It was not utter ruin.