be known as a
business man; he deported himself modestly and kindly; he pursued with
all his old-time diligence the trade which in earlier days he had found
so unproductive of riches. His indifference to the pleasures which money
put within his reach was passing strange, and it caused the Devil vast
uneasiness.

"Daniel," said the Devil, one day, "you're not getting out of this thing
all the fun there is in it. You go poking along in the same old rut with
never a suspicion that you have it in your power to enjoy every pleasure
of human life. Why don't you break away from the old restraints? Why
don't you avail yourself of the advantages at your command?"

"I know what you 're driving at," said Daniel, shrewdly, "Politics!"

"No, not at all," remonstrated the Devil. "What I mean is fun,--gayety.
Why not have a good time, Daniel?"

"But I am having a good time," said Daniel. "My business is going along
all right, I am rich. I 've got a lovely home; my wife is happy; my
children are healthy and contented; I am respected,--what more could I
ask? What better time could I demand?"

"You don't understand me," explained the Devil. "What I mean by a good
time is that which makes the heart merry and keeps the soul youthful and
buoyant,--wine, Daniel! Wine and the theatre and pretty girls and fast
horses and all that sort of happy, joyful life!"

"Tut, tut, tut!" cried Daniel; "no more of that, sir! I sowed my wild
oats in college. What right have I to think of such silly follies,--I,
at forty years of age, and a business man too?"

So not even the Devil himself could persuade Daniel into a life of
dissipation. All you who have made a study of the business man will
agree that of all human beings he is the hardest to swerve from
conservative methods. The Devil groaned and began to wonder why he had
ever tied up to a man like Daniel,--a business man.

Pretty soon Daniel developed an ambition. He wanted reputation, and he
told the Devil so. The Devil's eyes sparkled. "At last," murmured the
Devil, with a sigh of relief,--"at last."

"Yes," said Daniel, "I want to be known far and wide. You must build a
church for me."

"What!" shrieked the Devil. And the Devil's tail stiffened up like a
sore thumb.

"Yes," said Daniel, calmly; "you must build a church for me, and it must
be the largest and the handsomest church in the city. The sittings shall
be free, and you shall provide the funds for its support f