The spiritual strength that proceeds from every holy man had again flowed in life-giving stream from the preacher to Bart Toyner.

The help was adequate.

Toyner never became intoxicated again.
His father died; and for two years or more the mother, who had lived frugally all her life, still lived frugally, although land and money had been left to her.

The mother would not trust her son, and yet gradually she began to realise that it was he who was quietly heaping into her lap all those joys of which she had been so long deprived.

At length she died, the happy mother of a son who had won the respect of other men.
It was after that that Toyner wedded Ann Markham.