Three million dollars! In round numbers, three million dollars, after the legacies to individuals and the bequests to charitable institutions had been paid! Three million dollars! Suggestive of mighty air-castles, of untold grandeur, of matchless liberality to the poor and needy! Suggestive, also, of long and weary years of patient seeking after worldly wealth, of painful struggles with adverse circumstances, and of parsimonious self-denial extending even to the very necessities of life.…
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