“Hugh, there’s no use in trying to hide from you the fact that I love your sister Jenny, and wish to marry her as soon as I can support her.”
“She loved you long ago, James, but I was not allowed to tell you of it. Are you engaged?”
“Yes.”
“Well, you’ve found out who the ‘friend’ is, then?”
James Carter turned pale.
“You don’t mean that Jenny earned money to help take me through college?”
“Yes.”
“Then I will pay her back compound interest, the noble girl.”
Years have passed. Hugh, now very wealthy, has never married, but finds a happy home with James and Jenny Carter and their little son Hugh. The Hon. William Carter learned that it pays a thousand-fold to help a boy on in the world, and Jenny rejoices that she, too, helped a young man to success.