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“Yis’r, I’se here, massa.”

“Go tell Counsellor Prime to call on me immediately; tell Captain Winepipes to come over–I want to see him. I’m going to make a fool of myself, I believe.”

“Yes, sah, I’se gone; gorry, I guess dere’s suffin gwoin to happen to dat lady and dem chil’ns–shuah!” said Banquo, rushing out of the house.

The fate of the ship-builder’s family was fixed. Job Carson proposed–and the widow, of course, consented–that Martin Glenn should become the adopted son of the old gentleman, Job Carson; and that he should choose a trade or profession, which he should then, or later, learn, making the old gentleman’s house as much his home as circumstances would permit; the two girls were to remain under the same roof with the mother, who was at once installed as housekeeper for the bluff and generous old gentleman.

Old Captain Winepipes insisted on a share in the settlement, to wit: that both girls should be educated at his expense, which was finally acceded to, adding, that in case he–Captain Joseph Winepipes–should live to see Rose Glenn a bride, he should provide for her wedding, and give her a dowry.

“Set that down in black and white, Mr. Prime,” said Job, “and that I, Job Carson, do agree, should I live to see Cynthia Glenn a wife, to give her a comfortable start in the world–set that down, for I will do it, yes, I will,” said the old gent, with an emphatic rap on his snuff-box.

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Ten years passed away; Captain Winepipes has paid the debt of nature; he did not live to see Rose Glenn a wife; but, nevertheless, he left a clause in his will, that fully carried out his expressed intentions when Rose did marry, some two years after she arrived at the age of sweet seventeen. Martin Glenn Carson graduated in the printing office, and very recently filled one of the most important stations in the judiciary of Illinois, as well as a chivalrous part in the recent war with Mexico. Cynthia was wedded to a well known member of the Philadelphia bar, an event that Job Carson barely lived to see, and, as he agreed to, donated a sum, quite munificent, towards making things agreeable in the progress of her married life. Widow Glenn remained a faithful servant and friend to the old merchant, and, upon his death, she became heir to the family mansion, and means to keep it up at the usual bountiful rate. Large bequests were made in Job Carson’s will, to charitable institutes, but the bulk of his fortune fell to his adopted son, Martin, who proved not unworthy of his good fortune. Banquo ended his days in the service of the widow, who had cause for and took pleasure in blessing the vehicle that conveyed to herself and orphans their rare good fortune, in guise of a NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT.