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At especially critical moments he was saved through the help and advocacy of the music-master Spindler. The families who gave the poor student his meals complained of his bad manners. The wife of Judge Hahn forbade him the house on account of his boorish answers. “Beggars must not be choosers,” she had called out after him.
But there are thousands, of people in this good realm of England, who actually consider such beings a Spindler and Vandervelde superior to the noble genius who created Notre Dame de Paris.
But more remarkable than all, around the neck of each was a little steel chain, from which depended the regular check and label of the powerful Express Company, Wells; Fargo & Co., and the words: "To Richard Spindler." "Fragile." "With great care." "Collect on delivery." Occasionally their little hands went up automatically and touched their labels, as if to show them.
"But," said the unsophisticated host, "won't the boys think I'm playing it rather low down on them, so to speak, givin' 'em a kind o' second table, as ef it was the tailings after a strike?" "Nonsense," said Mrs. Price, with decision. "It's quite fashionable in San Francisco, and just the thing to do." To this decision Spindler, in his blind faith in the widow's management, weakly yielded.
"There are three cousins," said Spindler, checking them off on his fingers, "a half-uncle, a kind of brother-in-law, that is, the brother of my sister-in-law's second husband, and a niece. That's six." "But if you've not seen them, I suppose they've corresponded with you?" said Mrs. Price.
"One of our relations?" she said smilingly to Spindler. "No," said Spindler, with some embarrassment, "a a friend!" The half-niece extended her hand. Mrs. Price took it.
Her ancestors and her husband’s had always earned their livelihood in the honest ways of a trade. She could not see what the free tuition at Döderlein’s conservatory would avail Daniel, since he had nothing wherewithal to sustain life. He told her that Spindler had taught him how to play on the piano, that he would perfect his skill and so earn his sustenance. She shook her head.
There was very little of this experience to be traced in her round, fresh-colored brunette cheek, her calm black eyes, set in a prickly hedge of stiff lashes, her plump figure, or her frank, courageous laugh. The latter appeared as a smile when she welcomed Mr. Spindler. "She hadn't seen him for a coon's age," but "reckoned he was busy fixin' up his new house."
"Aunt" Martha Spindler, the elderly cook before alluded to, who was inclined to regard the gilded splendors of the house as indicative of dangerous immorality; in restraining "Cousin" Morley Hewlett from considering the dining-room buffet as a bar for "intermittent refreshment;" and in keeping the weak-minded nephew, Phinney Spindler, from shooting at bottles from the veranda, wearing his uncle's clothes, or running up an account in his uncle's name for various articles at the general stores.
Price, with her frank laugh, "that's the duty of one of your relations, your niece, for instance, or cousin, if one of them is a woman." "But," persisted Spindler, "you see, they're strangers to me; I don't know 'em, and I do you. You'd make it easy for 'em, and for me, don't you see? Kinder introduce 'em, don't you know?
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