23.00 _______ Total $232.00 In small iron safe $170.00 Received from sale of office effects $500.00 _______ $670.00 Expenses, outstanding bills, lawyer's fees, undertaker's bill, expenses for collecting, etc 587.00 _______ Balance, January 16th $83.00 Then with a shrug of the shoulders he dismissed the whole burdensome business from his mind.

Brunt would manage his property, sending him regularly the monthly statement in order to keep him informed.

The English gentleman of the fruit syndicate would add his hundred and twenty-five, and the 4 per cents., faithfully brooding over his eighty-nine hundred in the dark of the safety deposit drawer, would bring forth their little quota of twenty-three with absolute certainty.
Two thirty-two a month.

Yes, he was comfortably fixed and was free now to do exactly as he pleased.
His first object now was to settle down for the winter in some pleasant rooms.

He had decided that he would look for a suite of three--a bedroom, studio, and sitting-room.