"
Already they had turned the crest of the hill, and fainter and fainter
came the sound of the chase.
"Mark," Weston began, "I hope this affair of Tim's turns out all right.
What little I can do shall be done, and to-night I'm going to write to
the office that they must help him along. He deserves it."
"But the poorer men are, the greater their love," I laughed. "With
money to marry, Tim might think that after all he'd better look around
more--take a choice."
"But Tim is the most serious person that ever was," returned Weston.
"I have found that out. Once he makes up his mind, there is no
changing it. He is full of ideas. He actually thinks that a man who
is in business is doing something praiseworthy; that a man who has
bought and sold merchandise at a profit all his life can fold his hands
when he dies and say; 'I have not lived in vain.' He does not know yet
that the larger estate a man leaves to his relatives the more useful
his life has been. Now I suppose he hopes some day to be a tea-king.
Perhaps he will.
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