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I shall , out of my own private funds , provide for her support and education , until she comes of age , or marries , and if possible , I shall bring about a marriage between her and Tom , who will probably one day be master of Tracy Park . Can anything more be required of me ? ' ` Nothing , ' was the consoling reply ; and as the sleigh just then drew up before his door , Frank alighted from it , and said to himself as he ran up the steps : ` I believe I have been riding with the devil , and have made a league with him ! ' He found the house thoroughly aired and cleansed from all signs of the recent funeral ; and when , at one o'clock , he sat down to lunch in the handsome dining-room , and sipped his favorite claret , and ate his foreign preserves , and thought how much comfort and luxury money could buy , he was sure he had done well for himself and his children after him . But , like Bishop Hatto , of Mouse-Tower memory , Frank Tracy never knew real peace of mind from the day he deliberately sold himself to the Evil One for filthy lucre , until the day , years after , when full restitution was made , and , with the sin confessed , he held his head up again , free from the shadow which he did not leave in the sleigh , but which followed him day and night , walking by him when he walked , sitting by him when he sat , and watching by him when he slept , so as to be ready when he woke with the specious argument that he was acting justly and even generously by the little waif , who was like a sunbeam in the cottage in the lane , whom many people went to see , marvelling at her beauty and wondering in vain whose likeness they sometimes saw in her as she frolicked around the house , full of life , and fun , and laughter . Frank made his will , as he promised his shadow he would , but he went to Springfield to have it drawn up , for he knew that Colvin , or any lawyer whom he might employ in Shannondale , would wonder at it . He also wrote out himself what he called his dying request to his children , in case he should die before his brother .