She was a very kind and motherly person, and he was sure that Lucy would be most kindly treated and cared for by her.

It was then of his own future only that Frank had to think.

There were but a few pounds in the house, but the letter from the War Office inclosed a check for twenty pounds, as his mother's quarterly pension was just due.

The furniture of the little house would fetch but a small sum, not more, Frank thought, than thirty or forty pounds.

There were a few debts to pay, and after all was settled up there would remain about fifty pounds.