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first I saw him,” said Brandon, musingly. 
“ How did be lose his fortune, do you know?” 
“ It never was exactly his. He had ‘expec¬ 
tations,’ and his guardian died intestate and 
Edgar got nothing. Could you guess that 
guardian’s name, Braudou ? Our Dr. Lori- 
mer 1” 
He started. His thoughts went back with 
mine to the question I had asked him in the 
forest, and a strange expression flitted across 
his face, passing like a ripple over a lake; and 
though I saw how the firm hand was clenched, 
he spoke in his ordinary tone. 
“Did Edith tell you so ?” 
“No. Mr. Dana himself,” I said hurriedly; 
and to my relief Edith joined us—alone. 
“Nevil has gone home,” she said. “I 
was to say good night to everyone for him. 
You haven’t offered me your congratula¬ 
tions, Mr. Lovel, and yet have hoard of my 
engagement! Are you pleased?” 
“ I can’t say that 1 amt" he replied. 
“Are you Kate’s champion? It is not 
worth your while minding Nevil or myself!” 
“ Then you suppose that lam indifferent to 
your happiness, Edith ? I have no right 
either to advise you or to control your ac¬ 
tions. 1 can only say, think well before you 
marry a man whom you dislike!” 
“ Who told you I disliked him?” 
“Yourself, though not in words. Edith, 
you are in your youth, am! you are- 
“Gathering rosebuds while I may, Bran¬ 
don, and mine is a very pretty one! instead of 
Pax-agon I shall call him Rosebud! Are you 
coming in?” 
* ‘ It is too late now. Good night!” 
Edith watched him as he walked away. 
“ I thought he was going to preach, Kate, 
and I was really frightened, for Brandon 
makes you feel his sermons. I stopped him 
in the middle of the text. Was he furious 
when he heard of Nevil's conduct?' 
“ N ., not furious.” 
“ Wonderful! If any man would stand 
time to his colors Brandon would, so he 
shouldn’t tolerate faithlessness in others. I 
would give much to be able to say to him — 
4 ‘ I pray you, love*, love me no inure, 
Call fiurno the h^art you gave me*’* 
for if a wealthier suitor api eared, 1 would 
break with Nevil at once—on my word I 
would!” 
Very quietly and peaceably Autumn 
slipped away, and t was reconciled to my new 
existence. Of long rides over the common 
find through the fields, of rambles in the 
wood and garden, of stray hours in cottage 
and fairn house, these days had been a record. 
They had nothing of storm or tempest, but 
was a peaceful little chapter in my life's 
story, with few lines of pain on the pages, 
and my grief seemed to have gone with the 
flowers of Summer. Nevil Vemer ceme fre¬ 
quently, and I could meet him without uneasi¬ 
ness or embarrassment. 
My “one constant in crosses,” on whom 
“change laid not her hand,” was Brandon. 
The love 1 had always had for him, bora in the 
days of childhood,had grown with my growth; 
in the time of my sorrow lie had shown me 
more clearly the power of consolation pecu¬ 
liarly his own. Between himself and Nevil a 
coldness bad arisen; they had never been hand 
and glove with each other, but they bad been 
more together, more friendly, than they wore 
now. A cold courtesy on Brandon’s side, a 
studied avoidance on Nevil’s, had taken the 
place of old familiarity. 
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other day—a man who has a large hardware 
business in the city of Philadelphia. 
“And why not?” 
“ Because in forty-nine cases out of fifty 
they don’t do well. The exception is the one 
who comes here under the special protection 
of some one; he lives with an uncle, or aunt, 
or some friend of his family, who looks after 
his welfare and his habits and keeps him from 
going astray. But the average country boy, 
who comes to the city and goes to live in a 
boarding house, very quickly comes to grief. 
He is allured aud attracted by the strauge 
things which environ him , ho wants to see “the 
sights,” his habits become unsteady, and he is 
not to be trusted. No man wants a boy iu his 
business whose evenings are not well spent, 
and to be well spent they should largely be 
spent iu study.” 
“My father,” he went on, “was a ‘boss’ 
plasterer, aud, aside from his own five sons, 
he usually had from five to six apprentices. 
These apprentices be bad in his own family, 
and he looke 1 after them precisely as he 
watched us boys. Perhaps once a week they 
would be allowed to go out for some enter¬ 
tainment—a lecture at the Franklin Institute 
or something of that kind—but he always ac¬ 
companied (hem. On the other evenings they 
devoted an hour or two to study—to drawing 
-to whatever would be of use to them in their 
trade. And not one of father’s ‘ boys ’ has 
turned out badly. One of them is now presi¬ 
dent of a bank in Kansas. 
11 In my own business I have had some queer 
experiences with boys. We had one boy come 
to us about fifteen years ago, who began at 
the very bottom—as all successful men do—in 
sweeping the store, fixing fires, etc. He al¬ 
ways managed to spend about an hour in the 
store before breakfast, and bis eveuiugs were 
spent there. It was not long before that 
boy knew where everything in the store was, 
aud he would remember the faces of custom 
ers, and their names, and the sort of purchases 
they made, for months alter, and in a general 
way he not only mastered the entire inside 
business of the establishment, but he under¬ 
stood the general financial value of our cus¬ 
tomers. He saw everything, knew wheroevery- 
thing was, and in a multitude of instances 
prevented customers being turned away on the 
ground that we were out of such and such 
wares, or did not keep them, by informing the 
clerks where the desired articles were to be 
found ‘up-stairs.’ Ho manifested the same 
interest in the welfare of the establishment as 
if it had been his own, I don’t think he had 
been in school a day after he was twelve years 
old, except the school of business. And just 
here I want to say that the successful husinesa 
men of the country are not boys who have 
first gone * through college.’ Business is some¬ 
thing that needs to be learned as one learns a 
language—from the bottom up—and one has 
to begin young to be ready for it when he 
reaches manhood. Well, that boy became in¬ 
valuable. His salary was very modest at first, 
but we gradually increased it until we paid 
him $ 1,200. We then began to thin k of taking 
him into partnership, aud woudered whether 
he had saved eny money to put into the con¬ 
cern. We believed that he had been frugal, 
but be bad paid board regularly to his mother, 
and we hardly supposed that his savings 
would amount to much. One day we called 
him in our private office and offered him a 
partnership, adding that if he had any money 
to put iu, his profits, of course, would be that 
much greater. He replied, very modestly, 
that he had no money' except what we had 
paid him as salary, and if $10,01X1 would be 
any object to us, be could furnish that 
amount. He had $9,600 in bank aud his sister 
owed him $400, which was the sum of his cap¬ 
ital, the total of what his savings had amount¬ 
ed to during the twelve years he had been in 
our employ. Ten thousand dollirs! You may 
be sure we were astonished. But he had only 
told the truth in the matter. We took him 
into partnership very readily, you may be 
assured. 
“ We had another boy—an apprentice. He 
was with us from about thirteen until he 
was twenty-one—indentured until that time. 
Well, he was a different sort of boy. 
He never was on time iu the morning, and 
whenever wanted during the day like as not 
he was on the top floor reading a novel, lie 
took no interest in the business—a heedless, 
floppy fellow, who never knew where any¬ 
thing was, and didn’t care to know. When 
his apprenticeship expired I called him into 
my office and said, as I paid him what bal¬ 
ance of money was his due, ‘James, your 
