"A part will go to charitable institutions, a part——"
"Well?"
"To one whom I hold in greater regard than my nephew—to the boy, who guided you hither."
"Indeed! does he know anything of your purpose?"
"Nothing, and need not."
"You have taken a fancy to him?"
"Yes; he is honest, manly, upright, just such a boy as I should have been glad to have for my son. Don't dissuade me, for the thought of doing something for him gives me a new interest in life."
"I shall not dissuade you, Anthony, for I believe the boy to be all that you say. Of course if you had a blood relation who was deserving, I might make an objection. Has this boy relations?"
"Only a mother, who is mainly dependent upon him. By the way, have you invested the sum paid in lately?"
"No; but I have an application for it, or I should say, for four-fifths of it. Curiously, the applicant lives in this town."