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CHAPTER IV.
A PLOT DISCOVERED.

FEE EVERAL months passed away without
bringing any change in the respective
situations of the two brothers. The
elder, although he was not very
diligent in the service of Mr. Kartmann, had
not as yet deserved any serious reprimand. As
for Fred, the qualities which had brought him
under the notice of his employer, became every
day more marked and developed. His intelli-
gence, increased by the instruction that he had
acquired by dint of perseverance, placed him
above the other apprentices of his age; and the
conscientious manner in which he performed the
work entrusted to him, made his services almost
as valuable as those ofa man. He was employed
in the calico-printing department of Mr. Kart-
mann’s large factory, in which all the various
processes of cotton-spinning, weaving, and
printing were performed ; and he often admired
the engraved blocks, cylinders, rollers, etc, by