Hartman spoke of the circumstances to a friend, and that friend--betraying, I think, the confidence reposed in him--related it to me, not knowing that we were the parties to which the note had been paid.

On that note he came near failing again." "Indeed! And yet you have just sold him freely!" "I have.

But such are my feelings that I would risk five thousand dollars to keep him up.

I know him to be a man of strict honesty." "There is no doubt of that," replied the son.
"You remember his niece, I suppose ?" said old Mr.Edgar.
"Oh, very well." "When Mr.Hartman's circumstances became reduced, she, of her own free choice, relieved him of the burden of her support, and assumed the arduous and toilsome duties of a governess in one of our wealthy families, where she has ever since been.

On the evening before the note of which I spoke was due, she called to see her uncle, and found him in trouble.