Uncle Godfrey has become reconciled to Grant’s following his own course.  It is easy to become reconciled to success.

Willis Ford is confined in a penitentiary in a Western State, having been convicted of forgery, and there is small chance of his amendment.  He has stripped his stepmother of her last penny, and she is compelled to live on the charity of a relative, who accords her a grudging welcome, and treats her with scant consideration.  The bitterest drop in her cup of humiliation is the prosperity of Grant Thornton, toward whom she feels a fierce and vindictive hatred.  As she has sown, so she reaps.  Malice and uncharitableness seldom bring forth welcome fruit.

THE END