"I won't even cheat you out of the approval of Heaven.

Will you meet me at Means's office to-morrow, with the necessary documents for the transfer?
We had better go around to Mrs.Edwards's afterwards and inform her, I suppose." "I will meet you at Means's office at ten o'clock to-morrow morning," said the doctor, shortly.

"Good-evening," and with that turned on his heel.

However, when he had opened the door he turned again and called curtly and magisterially after Squire Eben: "I advise you to cultivate a little more business foresight for the sake of your wife and child," and Squire Eben answered back: "Thank you--thank you, doctor; guess you're right," and then began to whistle like a boy as he went down the avenue of pines.
Through lack of remunerative industry, and easy-going habits, his share of the old Merritt property had dwindled considerably; he had none too much money to spend at the best, and now he had bartered away a goodly slice of his paternal acres for no adequate worldly return.

He knew it all, he felt a half-whimsical dismay as he went home, and yet the meaning which underlies the letter of a good action was keeping his heart warm.
When he reached home his wife, who had just finished her game, slid out gently, and the usual festivities began.