PART TWO.
IN WHICH PETER BECOMES INVISIBLE ON THE WAY TO GROWING RICH In the late summer of that year Peter went up to the city with Mr.
Greenslet to lay in his winter stock and remained in canned goods with Siegel Brothers' Household Emporium.

That his mother had rented the farming land for cash was the immediate occasion of his setting out, but there were several other reasons and a great many opinions.

Mr.
Greenslet had a boy of his own coming on for Peter's place; Bet, the mare, had died, and the farm implements wanted renewing; in spite of which Mrs.Weatheral could hardly have made up her mind to spare him except for the opportune appearance of the cash renter.

With that and the chickens and the sewing, she and Ellen could take care of themselves and the interest, which would leave all that Peter could make to count against the mortgage.
They put it hopefully to one another so, as they sat about the kitchen stove, all three of them holding hands, on the evening before his departure.

But the opinions, which were rather thicker at Bloombury than opportunities, were by no means so confident as Peter could have wished if he had known them.