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"'Wass you in need of help, Mr. Stewart? says my grandfather, kindly. 'For if it's in any want you are, Tougal, says my grandfather, 'I will sell the coat off my back, if there is no other way to lend you a loan; for that was always the way of my grandfather with all his friends, and a bigger-hearted man there never wass in all Glengarry, or in Stormont, or in Dundas, moreofer.

What a man he was that Esmond Clarenden! They still say of him in Kansas City that no sounder financier and no bigger-hearted humanitarian ever walked the streets of that "Gateway to the Southwest" than the brave little merchant-plainsman who builded for the generations that should follow him. "What will be the outcome, Uncle Esmond? Are we to lose all we have gained out here?" I asked.

"What you mean," said the young man softly, "is that Alan must not know " "Caw is bound to tell Alan, has probably told him already. Don't you see how hideous the situation has become for father and Alan, too?" "I do see it. But now you know there's not a bigger-hearted chap in the world than Alan Craig suppose your father were simply to tell him everything " "Oh, never!" she exclaimed.

Instead of a forlorn and weary widow, she presented herself to her Chicago public fresher and prettier than ever, beaming with delight over everything and very much alive. That is the way Chicago likes. "Chicago is different," she repeated a dozen times a day, meaning by that vague comment that Chicago was more generous, kindly, hospitable, warmer and bigger-hearted than New York.

And this other thing, too: When you begin to be grateful for these things, by going through some such intellectual process as I have indicated, you will get so much more pleasure out of them than you did before that you will hardly be able to realize that you are the same man. Indeed, you will not be the same man you will be another man, a bigger-hearted, saner-minded, gentler, and manlier man.