Why, them fellers has got more money than they can
throw away. Mac sees his mistake now. Heard him tell Mr. Breen
that Mr. Minott was the whitest man he ever knowed; and you bet
yer life he's right."
Nor was Murphy's eulogium the only one heard in the village.
Within a week after the funeral a committee was appointed to
gather funds for the placing of a stained-glass window in the new
church in memory of the young architect who had designed and
erected it; with the result that Holker Morris headed the
subscription list, an example which was followed by many of the
townspeople, including McGowan and Murphy and several others of
their class, as well as various members of the Village Council,
together with many of Garry's friends in New York, all of which
was duly set forth in the county and New York papers; a fact which
so impressed the head of the great banking firm of Arthur Breen &
Co. that he immediately sent his personal check for a considerable
amount, desiring, as he stated at a club dinner that same night,
to pay some slight tribute to that brilliant young fellow, Minott,
who, you know, married Mrs.
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