"You'll have seventy dollars left over, father, won't you?"
"Yes; and that will provide for my next interest. I feel grateful and happy at Tom's success and his thoughtfulness."
Could Tom have seen the effect of his remittance it would have made his heart glad, and he would have felt abundantly repaid for his labor and self-denial.
CHAPTER XXVI.
SQUIRE HUDSON'S DISAPPOINTMENT.
If Whiteface was missed at her old home, she was scarcely less appreciated by her new possessor. On the very morning succeeding the day when Tom's remittance was received the squire remarked to his head workman, "Whiteface is an excellent cow, Abner."
"Yes, squire, I calculate she's the best you've got."
"I don't know but she is, Abner," said the squire, complacently. "I consider her worth at least fifty dollars."