“Sure I’ll come back, Charlie,” Tom promised. “We’ll go trapping together yet.”
Thus far, however, Tom has not gone back. He reëntered the university that autumn, with renewed ambition to finish his studies; and, without altogether neglecting collegiate athletics, he spent most of his spare time in his father’s office and yards.
The forty-odd thousand dollars was not a fortune, but it carried the business over a bad time, and was enough to set Mr. Jackson on his feet again. Though, as he says, the lumber trade is no longer what it used to be, the Jackson establishment seems to be prospering. After Tom’s graduation, however, the office stationery bore the new heading:
MATTHEW JACKSON & SON.
Perhaps the change brought luck.
THE END