Dr. Lavendar's People

bout it, John. But I want to tell you;

don said

told him briefly of the funeral. When he ended t

, Ed

n is in

to me?" the o

Lavendar; "it giv

other. "Good God! To pay the scoundrel for what he

king Mary comfortable, Joh

hat-creature one pen

ndar sai

coal broke into sputtering fragments and the flames roared up i

n to it. Haven't you go

. That's wha

u say, John, because he was g

rdon g

him anything; I'll

ar frowned

out a trembling

derstand.... How much

200 to go into some bu

e other repeated, with feeble shar

u haven't a b

d, fretfully; "I don't know but what I'm worse. Lending money to- But you say he was good to her? Poor Mary! Oh!" he ended, half to hi

't," Dr. Lavend

! Take it! G

think bet

you don't want to," th

it, and John Gordo

n't tel

n nothing. "But, Danny, my boy," he added, "what a chance he had! Well, he'll take it yet-he'll take i

avendar, dropping his shortcomings joyfull

ed this great comm

ntry th

to Algernon Keen, he found to his astonishment that it was not so easy to secure to

of us strange human creatures, of the stirring of God within him. He didn't want their dirty money, he said. They thought themselves so good, they couldn't stomach Mary. Well, then, they were too good for him to touch their money. His voice shook with a

ou didn't b

nd stared out of the window. "He better have offered to lend

ex.) "He wants to help you

the younger man insisted,

ould please her to

obligations to those peopl

has your note,

uppose he thinks I'd

e, it looks as if he

s face reddened slowly to his forehead and he would not meet Dr. Lav

"Come, Algernon, let her father do something for her sake. An

borrowed his money I'd pay it-I'd pa

to him," Dr. Lavendar said. "Let

k-bottle stood on the narrow mantel-shelf, a rusty pen corroding in its thickening depths; but Dr. Lavendar, in a ve

year-and put in the interest, sir. I'll have no favors from 'em.

dar added. "Now, you sign here, Al

, red-rimmed eyes filling-"oh, my