ed with flowers, leading to the gate, a small summerhouse on the lawn, and altogether was much the handsomest residence in the village. Three years before, the house, or, at all eve
wo outlying farms, which he preferred to carry on himself rather than let to tenants. Besides, he had stocks and bonds, to which he himself attended. But the farms required more attention than he individually was willing to bestow. Accordingly he employed a competent man, who had the general supervision of t
Squire Leech. "I think you will find it comfortable
the other farm, I s
t the farm, that is, except about half an acre of land for
me there will be need of another permanent farm workman. Now I know an excelle
ction to your engaging him
work for moderate wages. Indeed, he cares more for a permanent place than hig
a famil
s two young
e will move
at was what I was coming at. I thought of your ot
ied it for several years. I sh
her small house my
Leech r
not been much building going on in Wrayburn for se
am afraid it may interfe
that would just suit your cous
re i
ed by the widow C
going
uldn't
hat help us? Who
e on the place for seven hundred and fifty doll
entually fall i
th the semi-annual interest, which comes due next week. She is quite poor-has nothing bu
y with the interest, do
ndred dollars for her share of the property, and th
ndred dollars. How a rich man can deliberately plot to defraud a poor woman of a portion of her small property, you and I, my young reader, may find it hard to understand. Unfortun
saw in it an easy solution of the difficulty which he had met with in securing a house for his cousin. He did not know Mrs. Carter, and felt no particular inte
lent plan," he said, with satisfactio
It is then that the
ady to pay the int
er plan for her to part with it, and so escape the payment of interest. She has to pay fort
on; does he earn anything? Or
isn't much in a small village like this for a
is a good chance of our obtaining the house,
I thin
speak to the widow about it before
orrowing enough. Now, my idea is to say nothing about it till Tuesday. She may depend upon my waiting a few days. That I
rintende
eech," he said. "By the way,
road. It is on the op
here is some land connect
r a small place, I consider it quite desirable. Tomorrow w
g his mother and himself out of their comfortable home, and defrauding his mother of a considerable portion of the small property which his father had left. Had he known this