Always it was his hope that you would remain at home to be his comfort and stay; but if that could not be, then would he wish to send forth his only son in such a manner as beseemed his condition in life." Tom's eyes sparkled.

A flush mounted to his cheek, and his hand shook a little as he put the key into the lock.
It was all true.

There lay, in neat rolls, more money than he had ever seen in all his life--a fortune for a prince, as it seemed to him in his youthful inexperience.

The admonitions and counsel of his mother fell on deaf ears.

Tom's busy brain was planning a thousand ways in which his wealth might be expended.