ety, and would compromise cases which would
have added greatly to his reputation if he had let them go to trial. He
might have been worth double what he is to-day, if he had merely
invested his money, instead of letting it lie in savings banks or trust
companies. I've spoken about it repeatedly to him, but he only said that
he wasn't going to spend time taking care of money, for money ceased to
be valuable when it had to be taken care of; its sole use to him being
to have it take care of him. I think he worked for the sake of working."

"That explains Peter, certainly. His one wish was to help others," said
Miss De Voe. "He had no desire for reputation or money, and so did not
care to increase either."

"And mark my words," said Lispenard. "From this day, he'll set no limit
to his endeavors to obtain both."

"He can't work harder than he has to get political power," said an
usher. "Think of how anxious he must have been to get it, when he would
spend so much time in the slums and saloons! He couldn't have liked the
men he met there."

"I've taken him to task about that, and told him he had no business to
waste his time so," said Ogden; "but he said that he was not taking care
of other people's money or trying to build up a great business, and that
if he chose to curtail his practice, so as to have some time to work in
politics, it was a matter of personal judgment."

"I once asked Peter," said Miss De Voe, "how he could bear, with his
tastes and feelings, to go into saloons, and spend so much time with
politicians, and with the low, uneducated people of his district. He
said, 'That is my way of trying to do good, and it is made enjoyable to
me by helping men over rough spots, or by preventing political wrong. I
have taken the world and humanity as it is, and have done what I could,
without stopping to criticise or weep over shortcomings and sins. I
admire men who stand for noble impossibilities. But I have given my own
life to the doing of small possibilities. I don't say the way is the
best. But it is my way, for I am a worker, not a preacher. And just
because I have been willing to do things as the world is willing to have
them done, power and success have come to me to do more.' I believe it
was because Peter had no wish for worldly success, that it came to him."

"You are all wrong," groaned Lispenard. "I love Peter as much as I love
my own kin, with due apology to those of it who are present, but I must
say t