'Don't you know perfectly well that my boys are too well born and bred to fall in love with the money of a girl's father ? Their own father has money enough for both of them, if they need more than they're perfectly competent to earn—which isn't; at all likely.' ' Brown, , said the manufacturer, 'I take it all back ; bub you oughtn't to be hard on me for being a little suspicious. Young men nowadays—' 'Oh, hang "nowadays." Young men didn't try to marry money in your day and mine, of course—oh, no !' Broad looked uncomfortable, for he had made quite a reputation, in his own day, for pursuing local heiresses. Brown made haste to change the subject. Ke re marked : ' Broad, if things turn out right, I don'b think the young people are the only ones to be congratulated. Two old widowers that we're acquainted with will have a chance to grow young again in the very pleasantest way I know of. I've long been looking forward to tho time when the boys should marry ; I never spoke to them about it, knowing that young men seldom need to be egged on to that sort of thing, bub a family without a woman in it is pretty lone some at times.' ' I shouldn't wonder, , said Broad. 'As for me, I've always mourned that I waa denied a son.' ' Well, if things are going as you seem to think, you'll geb a couple of sons without having had to bring them up. You always did get a good deal out of me in trade, Broad.' s ' Umph ! Dare to say that you won't geb equal value in this case, and I'll forbid the bans.' • We'll call it square, old man, and hope that the young people won't make any blunders to make it crooked. , ' Amen !' eaid Broad. ' Well, I sup pose I may as well go to my lonely supper table. , 'I've one of the same kind,' said the postmaster. 'Suppose you come with me to mine ? We must begin to get better acquainted with each other outside of busi ness, if wo'ro to be dragged by our young ones into a family partnership.' ' It's a bargain,' said Broad. 