"Nevertheless, it must be done!" said Mr. Armstrong sternly.
"Moreover, you must resign your position as president of the
bank, and on that condition you will be allowed to go free, and
I will not expose you."
Of course, Squire Duncan was compelled to accept these terms.
He saved a small sum out of the wreck of his fortune, and with his
family removed to the West, where they were obliged to adopt a
very different style of living. Randolph is now an office boy at a
salary of four dollars a week, and is no longer able to swagger
and boast as he has done hitherto. Mr. Tomkins, Linton's father,
was elected president of the Groveton Bank in place of Mr. Duncan,
much to the satisfaction of Luke.
Roland Reed, much to the suprise of Luke, revealed himself
as a cousin of Mr. Larkin, who for twenty-five years had been lost
sight of. He had changed his name, on account of some trouble
into which he had been betrayed by Prince Duncan, and thus had
not been recognized.
"You need be under no anxiety about Luke and his prospects,"
he said to Mrs. Larkin. "I shall make over to him ten thousand
dollars at once, constituting myself his guardian, and will see
that he is well started in business.
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