h detested. This did not prepossess her any more in favor of
Luke Walton, whom she regarded as the rival and enemy of her son.

It was a joyful coming home for Luke. He removed at once to a nice
neighborhood, and ceased to be a Chicago newsboy. He did not lose the
friendship of Mrs. Merton, who is understood to have put him down for
a large legacy in her will, and still employs him to transact much of
her business. Next year she proposes to establish her nephew, Warner
Powell, and Luke in a commission business, under the style of

POWELL & WALTON

she furnishing the capital.

The house on Prairie Avenue is closed. Mrs. Tracy is married again, to
a man whose intemperate habits promise her little happiness. Harold
seems unwilling to settle down to business, but has developed a taste
for dress and the amusements of a young man about town. He thinks he
will eventually be provided for by Mrs. Merton, but in this he will be
mistaken, as she has decided to leave much the larger part of her
wealth to charitable institutions after remembering her nephew, Warner
Powell, handsomely.

Ambrose Kean never repeated the mistake he had made. Still more, by
diligent economy he saved up the sum advanced him by Mrs. Merton, and
he offered it to her. She accepted it, but returned it many times over
to his mother. Her patronage brought him another advantage; it led his
employer to increase his salary, which is now double that which he
formerly received.

Felicie lost her position, but speedily secured another, where it is
to be hoped she will be more circumspect in her conduct.

Thomas Browning, after all, lost the nomination which he craved--and
much of his wealth is gone. He dabbled in foolish speculation, and is
now comparatively a poor man. Through the agency of Jack King, the
story of his breach of trust was whispered about, and the sham
philanthropist is better understood and less respected by his
fellow-citizens.

His nephew, Stephen Webb, has been obliged to buckle down to hard work
at ten dollars a week, and feels that his path is indeed thorny.

Luke Walton is not puffed up by his unexpected and remarkable success.
He never fails to recognize kindly, and help, if there is need, the
old associates of his humbler days, and never tries to conceal the
fact that he was once a Chicago newsboy.

THE END.

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