Better sell when you can, and twenty-five thousand is a fair price.

Of course, you will have to pay off the mortgage; you won't get but about fifteen thousand out of it, but at the same time you won't have to pay the interest on that mortgage to the banks; that will be so much saved a month; add that to what you could get for your fifteen thousand at, say, 6 per cent., and you would have a monthly income nearly equal to the present rent of the house, and much more certain, too.

Suppose your tenant should go out, then where would you be ?" "All right, all right," answered Vandover, nodding his head vaguely.

"Go ahead, _I_ don't care." He parted from his old home with as much indifference as he had parted from his block in the Mission.
Vandover signed the deed that made him homeless, and at about the same time the first payment was made.

Ten thousand dollars was deposited in one of the banks to his credit, and a check sent to him for the amount.
The very next day Vandover drew against it for five hundred dollars.
At one time he had had an ambition to buy back his furniture from the huge apartment house in which he had formerly lived, and with it to make his cheerless bedroom in the Lick House seem more like a home.