all return to Dr. Sampson's boarding
school and you will go with me as my friend and room mate."

"But, Rodney, you will be ashamed of me. I am awfully shabby."

"You won't be long. You shall be as well dressed as I am."

A week later the two boys reached the school. It would have been hard
for any of Mike's old friends to recognize him in the handsomely dressed
boy who accompanied Rodney.

"Really, Mike, you are quite good looking, now that you are well
dressed," said Rodney.

"Oh, go away with you, Rodney? It's fooling me you are!"

"Not a bit of it. Now I want you to improve your time and learn as fast
as you can."

"I will, Rodney."

A year later Rodney left school, but he kept Mike there two years
longer. There had been a great change in the telegraph boy, who was
quick to learn. He expects, when he leaves school, to join Rodney in
Montana.

I will not attempt to estimate Rodney's present wealth, but he is
already prominent in financial circles in his adopted State. Philip
Carton is prospering, and is respected by his new friends, who know
nothing of his earlier life.

As I write, Rodney has received a letter from his old guardian, Benjamin
Fielding. The letter came from Montreal.

"My dear Rodney," he wrote. "I have worked hard to redeem the past, and
restore to you your fortune. I have just succeeded, and send you the
amount with interest. It leaves me little or nothing, but my mind is
relieved. I hope you have not had to suffer severely from my criminal
carelessness, and that you will live long to enjoy what rightfully
belongs to you."

In reply Rodney wrote: "Please draw on me for fifty thousand dollars.
I do not need it, and you do. Five years from now, if you can spare the
money you may send it to me. Till then use it without interest. I am
worth much more than the sum my father intrusted to you for me."

This offer was gratefully accepted, and Mr. Fielding is now in New York,
where he is likely to experience a return of his former prosperity.

As for Rodney, his trials are over. They made a man of him, and proved a
blessing in disguise.

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