Many thought him the stipendiary of Mr.Mackay, the multimillionaire, with whom he was intimate, who told me he could never induce Tom to take money except for service rendered.

Among his familiars was Colonel North, the English money magnate, who said the same thing.

He had a widowed sister in Texas to whom he regularly sent an income sufficient for herself and family.

And when he died, to the surprise of every one, he left his sister quite an accumulation.

He had never been wholly a spendthrift.