If I ever do, it will be the result of your own unworthiness, not because of the wrong-doing of others." There were signs in the boy's face of a brief struggle between the old pride, inherited from his mother, and the self-respect which Harold Mainwaring's words had but just awakened.
"If it were the other fellow," he said, slowly, "the one the old man intended to make his heir, had made me such a proposition, I would tell him to go to the devil; but, by George! if you will stand by me, it's all right, and I'll be man enough anyway that you'll never regret it." A few days later, Walter LaGrange, penniless and friendless, had disappeared, whither his former associates neither knew nor cared.
In a large banking establishment in one of the principal western cities,--a branch of the firm of Mainwaring & Co.,--a young man, known as the ward of Harold Scott Mainwaring, was entered as an employee, with prospect of advancement should he prove himself worthy of responsibility and trust.

But of this, as of many other events just then quietly transpiring behind the scenes, little or nothing was known.
Meanwhile, as the days slipped rapidly away, the party at the Waldorf was not idle.

There were conferences, numerous and protracted, behind dosed doors, telegrams and cablegrams in cipher flashed hither and thither in multitudinous directions, while Mr.
Sutherland seemed fairly ubiquitous.

Much of his time, however, was spent in the private parlors of the English party, with frequent journeys to the court-house to ascertain the status of the case.
From one of these trips he returned one evening jubilant.
"Well," said he, settling himself comfortably, with a sigh of relief, "the first point in the case is decided in our favor." "That is a good omen," Mr.Barton replied cheerfully; "but may I inquire to what you refer ?" "I have succeeded in getting the date for the hearing set for the next term of court, which opens early in December." "I am glad to hear it; a little time just now is of the utmost importance to our interests.

Did you have any difficulty in securing a postponement until the next term ?" "Whitney, of course, opposed it strongly.