Thus it may be surmised that Mr.Muir encountered no distractions after business hours.

He ever found a good dinner awaiting him, and his wife held herself in readiness to do what he wished during the evening, so far as the claims of the children permitted.

Therefore there were few more contented men in the city than he, and the name of Henry Muir had become a synonym among his acquaintances for methodical business habits.
In character and antecedents his younger brother, Graydon Muir, who was also an inmate of his family, presented many marked contrasts to the elder man.

He had received a liberal education, and had graduated at a city college.

He had developed into one of the best products of metropolitan life, and his defects were chiefly due to the circumstances of his lot.