Chester and his mother and a few friends attended the funeral of Walter Bruce. Silas Tripp was too busy at the store to pay this parting compliment to his nephew. He expressed himself plainly about the folly of the Rands in "runnin\' into debt for a shif\'less fellow" who had no claim upon them. "If they expect me to pay the funeral expenses they\'re mistaken," he added, positively. "I ain\'t no call to do it, and I won\'t do it."