Guthrie would have added that
five thousand dollars to the price if he hadn't wanted to help you
as well as me?"
"Five thousand dollars, my dear Jack, is no more to Robert Guthrie
than a ferry ticket is to you or me. He gave you the full price
because you trusted to his honesty and told him the truth, and he
saw your inexperience."
"No--it was YOU he was thinking of, I tell you," protested Jack,
with eager emphasis. "He would never have sent Ballantree for me
had you not talked to him--and it has been so with everything
since I knew you. You have been father, friend, everybody to me.
You gave me Ruth and my work. Everything I am I owe to you. You
must--you SHALL have half of this money! Ruth and I can be
married, and that is all we want, and what is left I can put into
our new work to help Mr. MacFarlane. Please, Uncle Peter!--we will
both be so much happier if we know you share it with us." Here his
voice rose and a strain of determination rang through it. "And, by
George!--Uncle Peter, the more I think of it, the more I am
convinced that it is fair.
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