So marked an advance in his spirit was not made in a day, however.  It came only after long dwelling in thought upon his splendid past.  And, too, after he had envisioned the circumstance that he was now a man of means.  The latter was not less difficult of realization than his kingship.  He had thought little about money, save at destitute moments; had dreamed of riches as a vague, rather pleasant and not important possibility.  But kings were rich; no sooner had his kingship been proclaimed than money was in his hand.  And, of course, more money would come to him, as it had once come on the banks of the Nile.  He did not question how nor whence.  He only knew.

It was three days before he bethought himself to finish the reading of Aunt Clara’s letter, suspended at sight of the astounding enclosure.  He had begun that letter a harried and trivial unit of the toiling masses.  He came to finish it a complacent and lordly figure!

“—­I enclose the check which wipes out all but $7,000 of that money from your dear mother with which dearest Edward so rashly speculated years ago, in the hope of making you a wealthy man.  I am happy to say that $5,000 of this I can pay at once out of the money I have saved.  I have been investing for years, as I could spare it, in the stock of the Federal Express Company, and now have fifty shares, which I will transfer to you at par, though they are quoted a little above that, if you are willing to accept them.  The balance I will pay when I have sold the house and furnishings, as with my dearest husband gone I no longer have any incentive to keep on working.  I am tired.  It is a good safe stock paying 4-1/2 per cent. and I would advise you to keep it and also put the Ins. money into the same stock.  A very nice man in the Life Ins. office said it ought to pay more if the business was better managed.  If you turned your talents to the express business you might learn to manage it yourself because you always had a fine head for such things, and by owning a lot of their stock you could get the other stockholders to elect you to be one of their directors, which would be a fine occupation for you, not too hard work and plenty of time to read good books which I hope you find same now of evenings in place of frittering away your time with associations of a questionable character, and ruining your health by late hours and other dissipation though I know you were always of good habits.

     “Affectionately,

     “Aunt Clara.

     “P.S.—­It has rained hard for two days.”

There it was!  Money came to you.  Federal Express was only a name to him; he had written it sometimes at Breede’s dictation.  But his Aunt Clara was old enough to know about such things, and he would follow her advice, though being a director of an express company seemed as unexciting as it was doubtless respectable:  what he had at times been wild enough to dream was that he should be the principal owner of a major-league baseball club, and travel with the club—­see every game!  If he should, temporarily, become the director of an express company, he would have it plainly understood that he might resign at any moment.