CONCLUDING CHAPTER. 921

“Kighty thousand dollars!” exclaimed
Howard.

“Yes, sir; eighty thousand, and odd, well
invested, bringing you an income of about five
thousand a year. Here are all the papers. As
executor of your father’s will, I have received
a yearly sum, which, for one year, was all the
income that I had from any quarter what-
ever. NowI have a clerkship, Mr. Framing-
ham, and am content. Here are your papers
all made out. I will get my hat and go im-
mediately with you before a magistrate, and
have them sealed, signed, and delivered.”

Mr. Cramer’s hurried manner was evidently
assumed to conceal the embarrassment he felt
in receiving Howard in a house so different
from the mansion at Rose Lawn, and under his
altered circumstances. |

“ But where are Mrs. Cramer and Ada? and
where is George? Shall I not see them?” de-
manded Howard. |

“Mrs. Cramer is engaged, and begs to be
excused. Ada is paying a visit in the country
to her old friend, Mrs. Starr.”

“Mrs. Starr! Is our tutor married.”