mental vision who shall know the history of two years bound the to they had carved it from the forest and had held it against the indian from there they had gone to the highest office of the state love marriage all the of life � were bound up with it he talked it over with s face fell why father you will be nothing but an general smiled remembered long afterwards with shame for his speech how wistful that smile was yes i shall be something more than that i shall be at least a faithful one i wish j could be as successful a one he wrote saying that as he had failed for himself he did not see how he could succeed for another but upon receiving a very flattering he accepted the offer thus the general remained as an employ on the estate which had been renowned for generations as the home of the and as agent for the new owner he the place with far greater energy and success than he had ever shown on his own account it was a bitter cup for to have his father act as aa but if it contained any bitterness for general he never gave the least evidence of it nor betrayed his feeling by the slightest sign when mr visited his new estate he admitted that mr knew better than he how to deal with general when he was met at the station by a tall gray haired gentleman who looked like something between a general and a he was inclined to be shy but when the gentleman grasped his hand and with a voice of unmistakable sincerity said he had driven out himself to meet him to welcome him among them he felt at home general becomes an it is like yourself to whom we must look for the preservation of our civilization said general and introduced him personally to every man he met as the gentleman who has bought my old not a carpet but a gentleman interested in the development of our country sir mr in fact was treated with a distinction to which he had been a stranger during his former visits south he liked it he felt quite like a southern gentleman and with one or two whom he met held himself a little once or twice the new owner of came down with parties of to look at the country they were interested in developing it and had been getting sundry acts passed by the with this in view general s nose always took a slight elevation when the was mentioned general entertained the visitors precisely as he had done when he was the master and mr and his guests treated him in the main as if he were still the master general sat at the foot of the table opposite mr and directed the servants who still called him master and obeyed him as such mr conceived a great regard for not with a certain contempt for his inability to avail himself of the new conditions fine old fellow he said to his friends no more business sense than a child if he had he would go in with us and make money for himself instead of telling us how to make it he did not know that general would not have gone in with him in the plan he had carried through that to save his life but he honored the old fellow all the more he had stood up for the against mrs who hated all on s account the old general who was as of this as a child was always sending mrs his regards perhaps she might like to come down and see the place he suggested it is not what it used to be but we can make her comfortable his glance as it swept about him was full of mr said he feared that mrs s health would not permit her to come south this is the very region for her said the general there is a fine health resort in the mountains a short distance from us i have been there and it is in charge of an old friend of mine dr one of the best doctors in the state he was my surgeon i can recommend him bring her down and let us see what we can do for her mr thanked him with a smile time had been when mrs had been content with small health but that time was past he did not tell general that mrs remembering the fight between her son and had consented to his buying the place from a not very noble motive and vowed that she would never set her foot on it so long as a remained there he only assured the general that he would convey his invitation mr s real interest however lay in the mountains to the westward and general gave him some valuable hints as to the lying in the ridge and the mountains beyond the i will give you letters to the leading men in that region he said the two most men up there are dr and squire they have like and lot about divided up the country mr s eyes he thanked him and said that he might call on him once there came near being a clash between mr and general when mr mentioned that he had invited a number of members of the gentlemen interested in the development of the resources of the state � to meet him the becomes an face changed there was a little of the nose and a slight quivering of the nostrils a moment later he spoke i will have everything in readiness for for your guests but i must ask you to excuse me from meeting them mr turned to him in blank amazement why general the expression on the old gentleman s face answered him he knew 