Shifting For Himself

that he was not going to have the

ph?” asked his father, as Ra

going

like to go with you,”

agement,” said R

was it

afte

ith Randolph’s engagement

l lonely?” ask

lk down Broadway. There will be

his engagement,” said Mrs. Briggs. “I am sur

ered something

could get along very well by h

, who had been waiting her opportunity

Mr. Briggs?” she asked. “Are you

hall find him a pla

e upon you, I sho

me to look

of t

son of my ol

me, I suppose, are in want; but I am

to me, and what property his father l

all used u

es

trust is

you drivin

you expect this boy to

no obje

mpering him at the ex

shrugged hi

ehold expenses will not be increased m

thing. Besides, he is not a

y n

a poo

g 61gentleman. It strikes me that he is qui

eady to side agai

want to s

o prefer th

st to every other boy, beca

hat I mean

, that you don’t want

N

ll I do w

shift for

gs shook

uld talk,” sa

” said the lady

ncur the reproach o

use: that’s more suited to his sta

a few days, and I wil

the honor of his friend, had exacted no guaranties of good faith. So far as Mr. Briggs knew, no living person was aware of the amount of Gilbert’s inheritance. There was no one, so far as he knew, to contradict his assertion that it had all been expended in the education of our hero. Yet it troubled him. He had made up his mind to wrong the boy, but he was not so hardened as to do it without some qualms of conscience. He meant to do something for him, get

the evening. Walking slowly along, looking in at the brilliantly lighted windows, he did not feel the need of companionship. In f

meets Mr

d, when all at once he

r. Greyson,” sai

y, he recogniz

Vivian,” he said, pl

is Mr. Greyson, who was so

ed that Laura was accompanied by a pl

Mr. Vivian, cordially. “My daughter has tol

said Gilbert. “I am ashamed to b

tention no less. My daughter and I are out for a

sir,” said Gilbert;

n the city?” a

chool hitherto, but I have n

arents res

looked

o parents

Mr. Vivian, in a

m aware of; Mr. Richard Briggs, a me

riggs? I k

I can hardly continue to call him my guardian, as he informs me that my little property has

“It will make a man of you the sooner. But about this p

, s

s ever rendered a

until within a week. Then, for the first time, 66I was

in leaving you uninformed as to your re

, but I wish he ha

ad reached a fashio

nd have an ice-crea

and the three entered and sat

king up by chance, he was astonished to see

at young beggar has more ch

surance to force himself upon them. So he sat watchful and envious, his

cent in the world, he wouldn’t b

id not know him, or he would not have suspected him of s