He came home once and staid a little while, and then went back again, although I believe he was rich.

It was mysterious, I never could quite understand it--though, of course, I believe there was some woman in it.

Neither your mother nor I could ever find out much about it.

By-and-by he came home again, and has been in business here ever since.

He's a bachelor, you know, and his business is different from mine, and he has queer friends and tastes, so that I don't often see him except when he comes to the house, and that isn't very often." "He's rich, isn't he ?" asked Abel.
"Yes, he's very rich, and that's the curious part of it," answered his father, "and he gives away a great deal of money in what seems to me a very foolish way.