her, Jennie--never loved any woman but her. Poor Mary! She
has had a hard time; I have tried to make things easier."

"You had always a lile heart, Davie; you could do no wrong to any
one."

"I hope not. I--hope--not." And with these words and a pleasant smile
the general answered some call that he alone heard, and trusting in
his Saviour, passed confidently

"The quicks and drift that fill the rift
Between this world and heaven."

His will, written in the kindest spirit, caused a deal of angry
feeling; for it was shown by it that after his visit to the Denton
Mills he had revoked a bequest to the brothers of L20,000, because, as
he explicitly said, "My dear brothers do not need it;" and this
L20,000 he left to Mary Butterworth Pierson, "who is poor and
delicate, and does sorely need it." And the rest of his property he
divided between Jennie and Jennie's bairns.

In the first excitement of their disappointment and ruin, Sam, who
dreaded his brother's anger, and who yet longed for some sympathetic
word, revealed to Jennie and her husband the plan Matt had laid, and
how signally it had failed.

"I told him, squire, I did for sure, to be plain and honest with
Davie. Davie was always a lile fellow, and he would have helped us out
of trouble. Oh, dear! oh, dear! that L20,000 would just have put a'
things right."

"A straight line, lad, is always the shortest line in business and
morals, as well as in geometry; and I have aye found that to be true
in my dealings is to be wise. Lying serves no one but the devil, as
ever I made out."

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