"You will pay me with your company. I will receive no other pay. My uncle has left me all his property—at least a hundred thousand dollars—and I was rich before."
"I will certainly accept your offer, since I am sure you will like to have me."
"You were teaching a boy, I believe?"
"Yes; but he is so well advanced now that he does not need my assistance. I am free to accept your kind offer."
"Call upon me this evening, and arrange to move to-morrow. I am very lonely, and want young and cheerful company."
When Andy called upon his friend in the evening he found him sumptuously lodged. The next evening he moved in.
"What news from Arden, Andy?" asked Mr. Gale.
"Nothing much, except that Squire Carter is expecting to foreclose the mortgage on father's farm next week."
"Is that so? We must not permit that."
"No; I have a thousand dollars in bank, and I shall ask Mr. Crawford to-morrow if he will advance me two thousand on some lots I own in Tacoma."