Rufus and Rose

ke up the whole of his salary. However, he would have the interest on his five hundred dollars, now deposited in a savings-bank, and yielding six per cent. interest annually. Still this w

iss Manning, or perhaps to a place of amusement. For all this, one hundred dollars a

if he gave satisfaction, and this he meant to do. Still, Rufus did not like this plan, for five hundred dollars seemed a good round sum, and he wanted to keep it all. The other way was to make up the neces

e summer, he would be obliged to give it up, and take breakfast at some restaurant down town. His breakfasts, probably, would come to very nearly the sum he would make by selling papers, and as Mrs. Clayton took him under her usual price, it was hardly to be expected that she would make any allowance for his absence from the morning meal. Besides, Rufus had left his old life behind him, and he did not want to go back to it.

s mind, the more perplexed he became. Meanwhile he

der. Turning round, he recognized a young man whom he remembered as cl

. "Is this you? Why are you not selling pape

selling paper

long

a few

e you up

office in W

rt of an

's,-Mr. T

the firm. Wha

dollars

ood,-better than

t make any more money than I did befo

und a place, and

is

and the business has

are looking f

n't if I only had

uld you

t of the owner's illness. It's a very good location, and being small does not require much capital to carry it on. The

't you t

ollars in the world, and I expect that

e owner want

s sick, and wants to dispose of it as soon as possi

tock is worth that

h more. I've been in the b

you borrow

that, but where shall I

ake a partne

, if I coul

ike tone, "what offer will you make to any one who

y who has got the mone

aps I don't; but maybe

ill set me up there, I will give him a th

you can make a thous

feel sur

ffer," said Rufu

teen dollars a week, and I have never been paid but twe

t not mak

ut in a bed, that will save me room-rent. My meals I can buy at the restaurants

u could sav

. After a while I could b

dred dollars, and this would abundantly make up what he needed to live in good style at Mrs. Clayton's, and afford Rose and himself occasional recreation. Of course a good deal depended on the honesty of George Black. But of this young

out?" inquired the young

or a partner?" asked Ruf

as anybody, if you had th

the money,"

ve got five hundred dollars

, I

u didn't make it sellin

; I found part of it and

me abo

s di

is the

in a savi

hop for me, and come in as my partner, I'll do what I said, and th

but there'll

conomically, and you can come in any time and see how it

ou'd have thought mo

this world. But when will you let me know ab

shop myself," said Rufus,

e to have you do. When will you

"for it would make me late at the

es

e this evening at eight o'clock. Just give m

Have you g

of our cards. You c

put down, and

ould probably be able to make an arrangement. In the evening

It had a good window opening to the street, and it appeared well filled with stock. A hasty

, and the plea of ill-health, judging from

ke of this morning," said Geo

said the proprietor

ged yet," said

Black. "He's in business in Wall Street, and is l

is position. He saw that it heightened his importan

sell out if my health would let me hold on. But confinement doesn't suit me. The

t's

shop been establi

e ye

o be pretty

If the right man takes hold of it,

asked George Black, turning to our

hould think a good busi

ere," said Black, emphatically. "But it all depends o

promptly. "I'll say the w