"You need be under no anxiety about Luke and his prospects," he
said to Mrs. Larkin. "I shall make over to him ten thousand dollars
at once, constituting myself his guardian, and will see that he is
well started in business. My friend Mr. Armstrong proposes to take
him into his office, if you do not object, at a liberal salary."
"I shall miss him very much," said Mrs. Larkin, "though I am
thankful that he is to be so well provided for."
"He can come home every Saturday night, and stay until Monday
morning," said Mr. Reed, who, by the way, chose to retain his
name in place of his old one. "Will that satisfy you?"
"It ought to, surely, and I am grateful to Providence for all the
blessings which it has showered upon me and mine."
There was another change. Mr. Reed built a neat and commodious house
in the pleasantest part of the village and there Mrs. Larkin removed
with his little daughter, of whom she still had the charge. No one
rejoiced more sincerely at Luke's good fortune than Linton, who
throughout had been a true and faithful friend. He is at present
visiting Europe with his mother, and has written an earnest letter,
asking Luke to join him. But Luke feels that he cannot leave a good
business position, and must postpone the pleasure of traveling till
he is older.
Mr. J. Madison Coleman, the enterprising drummer, has got into
trouble, and is at present an inmate of the State penitentiary at
Joliet, Illinois.
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