I pees a friend to everypody what needs a friend, and now what I needs mineshelf is one goot friend.

You she, mine taughter, if mine little farm he pees gone, and if mine sheep, and mine cows, and mine everything pees gone, den der is nothin' for mine Tite when he comes home." The old man paused for a moment.

It was impossible for him to keep the secret of his trouble from Mattie any longer.

He opened his heart to her and disclosed the fact that it was her own father who had brought sorrow into his home.

Yes, it was her father who had led him like a child into trouble, and then thrown around his acts such a chain of suspicious circumstances that you could scarcely find a man in the village, where but a short time ago Hanz was so great a favorite, who did not believe him guilty of inventing the Kidd Discovery Company, and bringing ruin and distress on his neighbors.