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Shun it, Archie, and promise me, as
you hope for heaven, never to play for money--never!"
"But what shall I do?" Archie asked, remembering that he had intended to
try his fortune at Monte Carlo, where he had heard such large sums were
sometimes made. "What shall I do?"
"I don't know, my boy," the father replied. "There will be some way
provided. Your Uncle John will look after you as your guardian, and your
aunt in America will help. But promise, and I shall die happier."
And so, with no especial thought about it, except that his father wished
it, Archie McPherson pledged himself never to play for money under any
circumstances, and the father knew the boy would keep the pledge, and
felt that his last hours of life ware easier; for those hours were his
last, and when the sun went down the master of Stoneleigh lay dead in
the room where he had blessed his son and commended him to the care of
his brother and Anthony, feeling, certain that the latter would be truer
to the trust than the former, in whom selfishness was the predominant
trait.


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