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you that you ought to walk.”
‘‘T have chosen, Edith,” was the young map’s low, .
but firm reply. ei :
‘““How?” The wife spoke with a sudden, trem-
bling eagerness, and held her breath for an answer.
‘‘T will leave my present place, and return to Mr.
Melleville.”’
“God be thanked!” came sobbing from the lips
of Edith, as she threw herself in unrestrained Joy
upon the bosom*of her husband.

 

CHAPTER VIII.

“T pon’r just understand this,” said Jasper to
himself, after the interview with his clerk described
in another chapter. “I thought him perfectly sa-
tisfied. He didn’t say he was offered a higher sa-
lary. Ah! guess I’ve gotit now. only a bit of
a ruse on his part to get me to" increase his wages,
I didn’t think of this before. Well, it has succeed-
ed; and, in truth, he’s worth all I’ve offered hi
Shrewd, quick, and sHarp; he’s a young man j
tomy mind. Shoiild he grow restless again, I must
tempt him with the*idea of a partnership at some
future period. If business goes on increasing, I
shall want some one with me whom I can trust and
depend on more fully than on a clerk”

Thus, in the mind of Jasper, all was settled ; and
he was fully prepared, on#the next morning, when