. I am not going to disregard what
one may call the pledges of a lifetime. We will treat everybody right,
the Presbyterian Church and Mr. Borrow included. His salary is a
thousand, I think you said?"

"Yes."

"Well, I am willing to make it fifteen hundred right now, if you are."

"We said, you remember, it ought to be two thousand."

"Who said so?"

"You did, on the porch here the other evening."

"I never said so. There isn't a preacher around here gets that much. The
Episcopalians with their rich people only give eighteen hundred."

"And a house."

"Very well, the Presbyterians can build a house if they want to."

"You consent then to pledge five hundred more to the minister's salary?"

"I said I would if you would, but my advice is just to let the matter go
over until to-morrow or next day, when the whole thing can be
considered."

"Very well, but, George, sixty thousand dollars is a great deal of
money, and we certainly can afford to be liberal with it, for the
General's sake as well as for our own!"

"Everything depends upon how you look at it. In one way the sum is
large. In another way it isn't. General Jenkins had just twenty times
sixty thousand. Tremendous, isn't it? He might just as well have left us
another million. He is in Heaven and wouldn't miss it. Then we could
have some of our plans more fully carried out."

"I hate to be thought covetous," answered Mrs. Grimes, "but I do wish he
had put on that other million."

The next day Mr. Grimes, while sitting with his wife after supper, took
a memorandum from his pocket and said:

"I've been jotting down some figures, Mary Jane, just to see how we will
come out with our income of sixty thousand dollars."

"Well?"

"If we give the place across the street for a park and a library and a
hundred thousand dollars with which to run it, we shall have just nine
hundred thousand left."

"Yes."

"We shall want horses, say a carriage pair, and a horse for the station
wagon. Then I must have a saddle horse and there must be a pony for the
children. I thought also you might as well have a gentle pair for your
own driving. That makes six. Then there will have to be, say, three
stable men. Now, my notion is that we shall put up a larger house
farther up town with all the necessary stabling. Count the cost of the
house and suitable appointments, and add in the four months' trip to
Europe which we decided yesterday to take next summer, and how much of