104 A GOOD INVESTMENT.

 

“ His father took him from school when
he was only eleven years old, because he’
could not afford to send him any longer,
and was about putting the little fellow out
to learn a trade. Something interested me
in the child, who was a bright lad, and act-
ing from a good impulse that came over
me at the moment, I proposed to his father
to send him to school for three or four years,
if he would board and clothe him during
the time. To this he readily agreed. So
I paid for Ned’s schooling until he was in
his sixteenth year, and then got him into
Webb & Waldron’s store, where he has been
ever since.”

“Webb & Waldron’s!” said the friend,
evincing some surprise. “I know all their
clerks very well, for we do a great deal of
business with them. Which is the son of
old Mr. Davis?”

“ The one they call Edward.”

“ Not that tall, fine-looking young man
—their leading salesman ?”

“The same.”