I am only a small tradesman; but I can pay my debts, and keep the pot boiling.

Will teach the boy some good trade, and make him a useful member of society, if I am spared.
"I am, sir, yours respectfully, "JOSEPH LITTLE." "Sir,--I beg to acknowledge, with thanks, your respectable letter.
"As all direct communication between Mrs.James Little and myself is at an end, oblige me with your address in Birmingham, that I may remit to you, half-yearly, as her agent, the small sum that has escaped bricks and mortar.
"When her son comes of age, she will probably forgive me for declining to defraud him of his patrimony.
"But it will be too late; for I shall never forgive her, alive or dead.
"I am, sir, your obedient servant, "GUY RABY." When he had posted this letter he turned Edith's picture to the wall, and wrote on the canvas-- "GONE INTO TRADE." He sent for his attorney, made a new will, and bequeathed his land, houses, goods, and chattels, to Dissolute Dick and his heirs forever..