Chương Chương 43 · S. and M. S., in open market, were worth a little over one thousand

each. They yielded from five to six per cent., sometimes more,

sometimes less. At this rate he would have ten thousand a year, not

more.

The family gathering broke up, each going his way, and Lester

returned to his sister's house. He wanted to get out of the city

quickly, gave business as an excuse to avoid lunching with any one,

and caught the earliest train back to Chicago. As he rode he

meditated.

So this was how much his father really cared for him! Could it

really be so? He, Lester Kane, ten thousand a year, for only three

years, and then longer only on condition that he married Jennie! "Ten

thousand a year," he thought, "and that for three years! Good Lord!

Any smart clerk can earn that. To think he should have done that to

me!"