He was warmly received by his family and found that his father had a smug sum to his credit in the bank.

Paul was now in his nineteenth year; he was strong and so bronzed with the sun that he looked fully twenty-five.

For some time after his home coming he was unsettled what to do, and once or twice was on the point of investing in a new outfit and re-embarking for the West Indies.

But the pleadings of his mother to abandon the wandering life he liked so well, and to settle down to a steady business prevailed, and his father assisted him to open a store in Philadelphia for the sale of curiosities and Oriental goods.
A branch at Cape May was also opened.

It was very successful and disposed of large quantities of goods to the visitors there.