al a committee was appointed to gather funds for
the placing of a stained-glass window in the new church in memory of the
young architect who had designed and erected it; with the result
that Holker Morris headed the subscription list, an example which was
followed by many of the townspeople, including McGowan and Murphy and
several others of their class, as well as various members of the Village
Council, together with many of Garry's friends in New York, all of which
was duly set forth in the county and New York papers; a fact which so
impressed the head of the great banking firm of Arthur Breen & Co.
that he immediately sent his personal check for a considerable amount,
desiring, as he stated at a club dinner that same night, to pay some
slight tribute to that brilliant young fellow, Minott, who, you know,
married Mrs. Breen's daughter--a lovely girl, brought up in my own
house, and who has now come home again to live with us.

Peter listened attentively while Jack imparted these details, a peculiar
smile playing about the corners of his eyes and mouth, his only comment
at the strangeness of such posthumous honors to such a man, but he
became positively hilarious when Jack reached that part in the narrative
in which the head of the house of Breen figured as chief contributor.

"And you mean to tell me, Jack," he roared, "that Breen has pushed
himself into poor Minott's stained-glass window, with the saints and the
gold crowns, and--oh, Jack, you can't be serious!"

"That's what the Rector tells me, sir."

"But, Jack--forgive me, my boy, but I have never in all my life heard
anything so delicious. Don't you think if Holker spoke to the artist
that Mr. Iscariot, or perhaps the estimable Mr. Ananias, or Mr.
Pecksniff, or Uriah Heep might also be tucked away in the background?"
And with this the old fellow, in spite of his sympathy for Jack and the
solemnity of the occasion, threw back his head and laughed so long and
so heartily that Mrs. McGuffey made excuse to enter the room to find out
what it was all about.

With the subletting of Garry's house and the shipping of his
furniture--that which was not sold--to her step-father's house, Jack's
efforts on behalf of his dead friend and his family came to a close.
Ruth helped Corinne pack her personal belongings, and Jack found a
tenant who moved in the following week. Willing hands are oftenest
called upon, and so it happened that the two lovers bore all the brunt
of th