“Yes, Franklin hasn’t anything mean in his nature.”
“Don’t you think it a pity that while his boy and ours are so fond of each other their fathers are not on speaking terms?”
“Perhaps so, but there must always be two persons to a quarrel.”
“And you are one of them in this case. I mean to call on Sophia this very day.”
“Haynes flew up before he had time to understand all the facts in that little affair of ours. If he had waited he would have found that he had no cause for grievance.”
“Suppose you call on him.”
The banker shook his head.
“That is asking too much; it would be humiliating.”
Now when a sensible wife makes up her mind that her husband shall do a certain thing, and when that husband wishes to do it, but allows a false pride to hold him back, you may make up your mind that the aforesaid thing will be done with no unnecessary delay.
So it was that Gideon Landon went to Franklin Haynes and they had not talked ten minutes when the cloud between them vanished. Friendship and full trust were restored and can never be broken again. It was another illustration of the good that often flows from small deeds and even smaller words.