miles an hour the peaceful flowing of the stream here the rushes there the lilies nothing uncertain or he thought of his poor child little for a long time there he thought of her going home he thought of her in the night he thought of her when the day came round again and the poor child little thought of him � too faithfully ah too faithfully � in the shadow of the wall little machinery in motion mr himself with such prompt activity in the matter of the with daniel which had to him that he soon brought it into business train and called on at nine o clock one morning to make his report is highly gratified by your good opinion he opened the business by saying and desires nothing so much as that you should examine the affairs of the works for yourself and entirely understand them he has handed me the keys of all his books and papers � here they are in this pocket � and the only charge he has given me is let mr have the means of putting himself on a perfect equality with me as to knowing whatever i know if it should come to nothing after all he will respect my confidence unless i was sure of that to begin with i should have nothing to do with him and there you sec said mr you have daniel all over a very honorable character oh yes to be sure not a doubt of it odd but very honorable yery odd though now would you said mr with a hearty enjoyment of his friend s that i had a whole morning in what s his yard bleeding heart a whole morning in bleeding heart yard before i could induce him to pursue the subject at all how was that how was that my friend i no sooner mentioned your name in connection with it than he declared off declared off on my account i no sooner mentioned name than he said that will never do what did he mean by that i asked him no matter that would never do why would it never do you ll hardly believe it said mr laughing within himself but it came out that it would never do because you and he walking down to together had glided into a in the course of which he had referred to his intention of taking a partner supposing at the time that you were as firmly and finally settled as saint paul s cathedral whereas says he mr might now believe if i entertained his proposition that i had a sinister and motive in what was open free speech which i can t bear says he which i really am too proud to bear i should as soon suspect of course you would interrupted mr and so i told him but it took a morning to scale that wall and i doubt if any little other man than myself he likes me of old could have got his it well this business like obstacle surmounted he then that before with you i should look over the form my own opinion i looked over the books and formed my own opinion is it on the whole for or against says he for says i then says he you may now my good friend give mr the means of forming his opinion to enable him to do which without bias and with perfect freedom i shall go out of town for a week and he s gone said mr that s the rich conclusion of the thing leaving me said with a high sense i must say of his and his mr struck in i should think so it was not exactly the word on s lips but he to interrupt his good humoured friend and now added mr you can begin to look into matters as soon as you think proper i have undertaken to explain where you may want explanation but to be strictly impartial and to do nothing more they began their in bleeding heart yard that same little peculiarities were easily to be detected by experienced eyes in mr s way of managing his affairs but they almost always involved some ingenious of a difficulty and some plain road to the desired end that his papers were in and that he stood in need of assistance to develop the capacity of his business was clear enough but all the results of his during many years were distinctly set forth and were with ease nothing had been done for the purposes of the investigation everything was in its genuine working dress and in a certain honest rugged order the calculations and in his own hand of which there were many were written and with no very neat precision but were always plain and directed straight to the purpose it occurred to arthur that a far more elaborate and taking show of business � such as the records of the office made perhaps � might be far less serviceable as being meant to be far less intelligible three or four days of steady application rendered him master of all the facts it was essential to become acquainted with mr was at hand the whole time always ready to any dim place with the bright little safety lamp belonging to the scales and between them they agreed upon the sum it would be fair to offer for the purchase of a half share in the business and then mr a paper in which daniel had noted the amount at which he valued it which was even something less thus when daniel came back he found the affair as good as concluded and i may now mr said he with a cordial shake of the hand that if i had looked high and low for a partner i believe i could not have found one more to my mind 