Well, good-by. Send on the power of attorney by return of mail.
Yours till death,
TOM SLOAN.
"Five thousand dollars!" ejaculated Mrs. Fenton. "I can't believe it."
"You will, mother, when you get the money. There's no time to be lost. I'll go out at once and get the power of attorney, and we'll write at once, telling Mr. Sloan to do whatever he thinks best. Do you agree to that, mother?"
"Yes, Fred. He is a good man and I trust him entirely."
CHAPTER XXXVII. — COUSIN FERGUSON.
In a fortnight Fred received from Colorado an order on a New York banker for six thousand five hundred dollars, being the purchase money on the Colorado lands.