nce. He got it fighting for his mother from boyhood. He
knew she would freeze and starve if he didn't take care of her; he HAD
to do it. He soon found he could. It took money to do what he had to
do. He got the money. Then he began performing miracles with it. He
lifted his mother out of poverty, he dressed her 'in purple and fine
linen,' he housed her in the same kind of home other rich men of the
Lake Shore Drive live in, and gave her the same kind of service. As
most men do, when things begin to come their way, he lived for making
money alone. He was so keen on the chase he wouldn't stop to educate
and culture himself; he drove headlong on, and on, piling up more, far
more than any one man should be allowed to have; so you can see that it
isn't strange that he thinks there's nothing on earth that money can't
do. You can see THAT sticking out all over him. At the hotel, on
boats, on the trains, anywhere we went, he pushed straight for the most
conspicuous place, the most desirable thing, the most expensive. I
almost prayed sometimes that in some way he would strike ONE SINGLE
THING that he couldn't make come his way with money; but he never did.
No. I haven't an idea what he has in his mind yet, but he's going to
write me about it this week, and if I agree to whatever it is, he is
coming Sunday; then he has threatened me with a 'deluge,' whatever he
means by that."

"He means providing another teacher for Walden, taking you to Chicago
shopping for a wonderful trousseau, marrying you in his Lake Shore
palace, no doubt."

"Well, if that's what he means by a 'deluge,'" said Kate, "he'll find
the flood coming his way. He'll strike the first thing he can't do
with money. I shall teach my school this winter as I agreed to. I
shall marry him in the clothes I buy with what I earn. I shall marry
him quietly, here, or at Adam's, or before a Justice of the Peace, if
neither of you wants me. He can't pick me up, and carry me away, and
dress me, and marry me, as if I were a pauper."

"You're RIGHT about it," said Nancy Ellen. "I don't know how we came
to be so different. I should do at once any way he suggested to get
such a fine-looking man and that much money. That it would be a
humiliation to me all my after life, I wouldn't think about until the
humiliation began, and then I'd have no way to protect myself. You're
right! But I'd get out of teaching this winter if I could. I'd love
to have you here."