yourself. A magnificent sum truly. Pray, how do you manage to spend so
much? You must be getting rich.'

The words were sarcastic, but the tone belied the words, and Harold was
about to speak, when his grandmother interrupted him, and said,

'What he does not spend for us he puts aside. He is trying to save
enough to go to the High School, but it's slow work. I can do but little
myself, and it all falls upon Harold.'

'But I like it, grandma. I like to work for you and Jerry, and I have
almost twenty dollars saved,' Harold said, 'and in a year or two I can
go away to school, and work somewhere for my board. Lots of boys do
that.'

Arthur was hitching his pony to the fence, while a new idea was dawning
in his mind.

'Fifty cents a day,' he said to himself, 'and he has twenty dollars
saved, and thinks himself rich. Why, I've spent more than that on one
bottle of wine, and here is this boy, Amy's son, wanting an education,
and working to support his grandmother like a common laborer. I believe
I _am_ crazy.'

He was in the cottage by this time--in the clean, cool kitchen where the
supper table was laid with its plain fair, most unlike the costly viands
which daily loaded his board.

'Don't wait for me, Harold must be hungry,' he said, adding quickly: 'Or
stay, if you will permit me, I will take a cup of tea with you. The
drive has given me an appetite, and your tea smells very inviting.'

It was a great honor to have Arthur Tracy at her table, and Mrs.
Crawford felt it as such, and was very sorry, too, that she had nothing
better to offer him than bread and butter and radishes, with milk, and a
dish of cold beans, and chopped beets, and a piece of apple pie saved
for Harold from dinner. But she made him welcome, and Jerry, delighted
to return the hospitality she had received, brought him a clean plate
and cup and saucer, and asked if she might get the best sugar-bowl and
the white sugar. Then, remembering the beautiful flowers which had
adorned the table at Tracy Park, she ran out and gathering a bunch of
June pinks, put them in a little glass by his plate.

When all was ready and they had taken their seats at the table, Mrs.
Crawford closed her eyes reverently and asked the accustomed blessing
which in that house preceded every meal. Jerry's amen was a good deal
louder and more emphatic than usual, while she nodded her head to
Arthur, with an expression which he understood to mean, 'You know now
what you ought