i shall j shut my eyes and trust to providence your friends will meet you there i suppose i wrote them two weeks ago that i should be there today and then my cousin wrote me to let her know the train and i replied telling her what train i expected to take i would never have come if i had imagined we were going to have this trouble the girl reassured her by telling her that even if her friends did not meet her she would put her in the way of reaching them safely and in a little while they drew into the station s first impression of new york was dazzling to him the rush the hurry stirred him and filled him with a sense of power he felt that here was the theatre of action for him the offices of company were in one of the large buildings down town the whole floor was filled with pens and off places beyond which lay the private offices of the firm mr was engaged and had to wait for an hour or two before he could secure an with him when at length he was admitted to mr s inner office he was received with some cordiality his father was asked after and a number of questions about were put to him then mr came to the point he had a high regard for his father he said and having heard that was living in where they had some interests it had occurred to him that he might possibly be able to give him a position the salary would not be large at first but if he showed himself capable it might lead to something better was thrilled and declared that what he was work and opportunity to show that he was able to work mr was sure of this and informed him briefly that it was work that they had for the clearing up of titles and securing of such lands as we may wish to obtain he added this was satisfactory to and he said so mr s shrewd eyes had a gleam of content in them of course our interest will be your first consideration he said yes sir i should try and make it so for instance proceeded mr there are certain lands lying near our lands not of any special value but still you can readily understand that as we are running a railroad through the mountains and are large sums of money it is better that we should control lands through which our line will pass saw this perfectly do you know the names of an offer any of the owners he inquired i am familiar with some of the lands about there mr pondered was so and eager that there could be no harm in coming to the point why yes there is a man named that has some lands or some sort of interest in lands that ours it might be well for us to control those properties s countenance fell it happens that i know something of those lands yes well you might possibly take those properties along with others t i could certainly convey any proposition you wish to make to mr and should be glad to do so began we should expect you to use your best efforts to secure these and au other lands that we wish interrupted mr speaking with sudden when we employ a man we expect him to give us all his services and not to be half in our employ and half in that of the man we are fighting the change in his manner and tone was so great and so unexpected that was amazed he had never been spoken to before quite in this way he however repressed his feeling i should certainly render you the best service i could he said but you would not expect me to say anything to squire that i did not believe he has talked with me about these lands and he knows their value just as well as you do mr looked at him with a cold light in his eyes which suddenly recalled to i don t think that you and i will suit each other young man he said s face flushed he rose i don t think we should mr good morning and turning he walked out of the room with his head very high as he passed out he saw he was giving some directions to a clerk and his tone was one that made glad he was not under him haven t you any brains at heard him say yes but i did not understand you then you are a fool said the young man just then caught his eye and spoke to him only nodded and went on the clerk walked about the streets for some time before he could soothe his ruffled feelings and regain his composure how life had changed for him in the brief interval since he entered mr s office i then his heart beat high with hope life was all brightness to him was already won now in this short space of time his hopes were all yet his instinct told him that if he had to go through the interview again he would do just as he had done he felt that his chance of seeing would not be so good early in the day as it would be later in the afternoon so he determined to deliver first the letter which his father had given him to dr the old clergyman s church and stood on an ancient street over toward the river from which wealth and fashion had long fled his parish which had once taken in many of the well to do and some of the wealthy now embraced within its a section which held only the poor but like an older and more noted divine dr could 