CONCLUSION.
"I see you know me, Mr. Walton," said the Cuban, quietly. "I have a
few words to say to you. Do you wish your son to listen?"
"Clarence, you may leave the office," said the merchant, in a husky
voice.
Clarence, whose curiosity was aroused, was very unwilling to go.
"Sha'n't Ben go, too?" he asked.
"Yes."
"I beg pardon, but I wish him to remain," said the Cuban. "He is
deeply concerned in what I have to say."
Clarence was still more curious. He left the office, but he lingered
within ear-shot.
"Mr. Walton," said Novarro, "I am a man of few words, and will come
to the point. As the guardian of this boy, and the friend of his
father's friend, I have come to demand from you the fortune of which
you deprived him."
"I don't know what you are talking about," said the merchant, trying
to speak firmly.
"I beg your pardon, but you do. I call for the money you obtained
for the securities which you took from the dead body of Dr.
Baker, who died in your house of heart disease--a sum which you
appropriated to your own use, leaving your sister and your sister's
son poor and dependent."
"You must be crazy, sir. Where is the proof of your strange and
unfounded charge?"
"I can produce the broker who sold these securities for you in the
year 18--."
"It is easy to say this. May I know the name of this broker?" asked
the merchant, making a feeble attempt to deny the charge.
"His name is John Goldsmith, and his office is No. ---- Wall
street," answered Novarro, promptly.
Nicholas Walton leaned back in his chair and seemed ready to faint,
but uttered no word.
"Well, sir, your answer?"
"Can't we--compromise--this--thing?" asked Walton, feebly.
"No, sir; we will promise not to expose you, but it will be only
upon condition that you pay principal and interest. The only favor
we will extend is, that we will not demand compound interest."
"But it will ruin me! I cannot take so large a sum from my business."
"That I can understand. On behalf of my young ward and his mother,
I will agree to accept half cash, and half in notes maturing at
different dates, secured by your stock in trade. Do you consent, or
shall we bring suit?"
"Can't you throw off the interest? That boy and his mother will be
amply provided for by the principal."
"If you had received your nephew differently when he applied for
help just now, we might have consented. Now it is out of the
question."
Nicholas Walton was forced to make an unconditional surrender, and
the terms were agreed to upon the spot.
"Ben," said Mr. Novarro, as they left the office, "I congratulate
you. You are now rich."
"Thanks to you kind management, Mr. Novarro."
It is said that listeners never hear any good of themselves.
Clarence was in a terrible panic when he heard the conference
between his father and the Cuban. That his despised cousin Ben
should become suddenly rich was a bitter pill to swallow. He sneaked
out of the store, perturbed in mind.
"Now, Ben, I suppose you will want to carry the news to your
mother," said the Cuban.
"That is what I was about to ask, Mr. Novarro."
"We will take the next train for Sunderland, preparing your mother
by a telegram."
I do not propose to describe Ben's happy meeting with his mother.
Mrs. Baker was grieved to hear of her brother's treachery, but it
was a relief to her to think that he had nothing to do with her
husband's death. As we know, he was directly responsible for it, but
the knowledge of this was confined to his own breast. Even the Cuban
never suspected what had brought on the attack that terminated the
poor doctor's life.
"Now, Ben, what career do you select?" asked his guardian.
Ben took a week to consider. He then decided not to go into
business, but to obtain a liberal education, and study law. He and
his mother removed to Cambridge, where he completed his preparatory
studies, and entered Harvard College. He is now a young lawyer,
and has commenced the practice of his profession under flattering
auspices.
Clarence Plantagenet, on the other hand, is a young man about town,
and his father cannot induce him to enter upon any business. He has
professed his willingness to become a broker, if his father will
purchase him a seat at the Stock Board, but Mr. Walton wisely thinks
it will be cheaper to give him a liberal income than give him the
chance of squandering a fortune in stocks.
We must not forget the Beauforts. They removed to a fashionable
locality, and purchasing a house, furnished it with elegance and
taste. It is surprising how many people found them out in their days
of prosperity who had ignored them before. Even Mrs. Tilton essayed
to apologize for her outrageous treatment, and tried to ingratiate
herself with Rose, but the latter treated her with such distant
civility that she gave up the attempt. In less than a year Rose
Beaufort became Mrs. Clinton Randall, and her star rose still higher.
There is one person who never will forgive her for her good fortune,
and that is Miss Arethusa Jayne, who had strongly hoped to secure
the hand of Clinton Randall for herself. No one would have been more
amazed than Randall himself, for he was happily unconscious of Miss
Jayne's admiration for him.
Ben has not forgotten his early friends. Hugh Manton, the reporter,
by his help has secured an interest in a flourishing daily paper in
an inland city, and is earning a liberal income.
Major Grafton is earning a precarious living at European spas and
gambling resorts, and is beginning to show the marks of age. Filippo
Novarro has established himself as a permanent resident of the
United States, and spends much of his time with Ben and his mother.
And now, with all our characters satisfactorily disposed of, the
good rewarded, and the bad punished, we bid the reader farewell and
ring down the curtain.
HORATIO ALGER, JR.
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Transcriber's note:
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and
non-hyphenated variants. All have been retained. This book also
contains dialect and vernacular comversation.
Obvious punctuation errors were fixed.
Other printing errors, which were not detected during the revision
of the printing process of the original book, have been corrected.
The following provides the detail of those corrections:
In Page 23 the expression "by curiosity" was changed to "my
curiosity".
In Page 43 in the expression "sauntered out out", "out" was removed
once from the text.
In Page 52 "In his attempt to obtained" was changed to "In his
attempt to obtain".
In Page 105 the expression "was an expect" was changed to "was an
expert".
In Page 176 the expression "for work as a seamtress" was changed to
"for work as a seamstress".
In Page 179 "I shall insist in" was changed to "I shall insist on".
In Page 238 the expression "had prevented" was changed to "had
prevented him".
In Page 239 the expression "to have strong affections" was changed
to "to have as strong affections".
In Page 310 the expression "was dumfounded by receiving" was changed
to "was dumbfounded by receiving".
In Page 316 the expression "but he dosen't" was changed to "but he
doesn't".
In Page 321 "In behalf of my young ward" was changed to "On behalf
of my young ward".