Purvis' girl, Sophie Searcy, was in Selma.

Their hope was to have enough money by Christmas each to pay a visit to those distant places.

My girl was on the spot, and we had resolved, money or no money, to be married without delay.
Before New Year's the three of us were wedded and comfortably settled, with funds galore, for the paper had thrived consumingly.

It had thrived so consumingly that after a little I was able to achieve the wish of my heart and to go to London, taking my wife and my "great American novel" with me.

I have related elsewhere what came of this and what happened to me.
III That bread cast upon the waters--"'dough' put out at usance," as Joseph Jefferson used to phrase it--shall return after many days has been I dare say discovered by most persons who have perpetrated acts of kindness, conscious or unconscious.