After ascertaining that the personal property had been cannily transferred to the debtor's wife, he had told Anderson, upon the presentation of a modest bill, that he was a fraud and he could have done better himself.

Beside this backward stroke of business, Anderson had that year a will to draw up, for which he was never paid, and had married a couple who had reimbursed him in farm produce.

At the expiration of that year the lawyer, having to all intents and purposes been given up by the law, gave it up in his turn.

Every cent of the money which he had inherited from his father had been expended.

Nothing remained except his mother's small property, which barely sufficed to support her.
Anderson then borrowed money from his uncle, who was well-to-do, giving him his note for three years, rented a store on Main Street, purchased a stock of groceries, and went into trade.