He smiled so then.

"Yes, I am willing to take some land for the debt, since you have not the money," said he.
"But--that was--father's land." "Yes, and your father was a good, thrifty man.

He did not waste his substance." "It was grandfather's, too." "Yes, it was, I believe." "It has always been in our--family.

It's the Upham--land.

I can't part with it nohow." "I will take the money, then," said Doctor Prescott.
"I'll raise it just as soon as I can, doctor," cried John Upham, eagerly.