And if the woman he won for his wife in these latter days was not quite the fresh young beauty he had wooed under the walnut-trees in Captain Sedgewick's garden, she was still infinitely more beautiful than all other women in his eyes; she was still the dearest and best and brightest and purest of all earthly creatures for him.

In that happy time--that perfect summer and harvest of his life--all his fondest dreams have been realized.

He has the home he so often pictured, the children whose airy voices sounded in his dreams, the dear face always near him, and, sweeter than all, the knowledge that he is loved almost as he loves.

The bitter apprenticeship has been served, and the full reward has been granted.
For Ellen Whitelaw too has come the period of compensation, and the farmer's worst fears have been realized as to Frank Randall's participation in that money he loved so well.

The income grudgingly left to his wife by Stephen has enabled Mr.Randall to begin business as a solicitor upon his own account, in a small town near London, with every apparent prospect of success.