in the second year tom salary was raised but all except the price of his dinner and clothes went home into the tin box and he lest it should lead him into expenses in spite of himself not that tom was on the type of the industrious he had a very strong appetite for pleasure � would have liked to be a of horses and to make a distinguished figure in all neighboring eyes treats and benefits to others with well judged and being pronounced one of the finest young fellows of those parts nay he determined to achieve f these things sooner or later but his practical told r him that the means to such achievements could only lie for him in present and self denial there were certain mile stones to be passed and one of the first was the payment of his father s debts having made up his mind on that point he strode along without some rather h nine as a young man is likely to do who has a ture call upon him for self reliance tom felt intensely common cause with his which springs from family pride and was bent on being as a son but his growing experience caused him to pass much silent criticism on the and of his father s past conduct their dispositions were not in sympathy and tom s face showed little radiance during his few home hours had an awe of him against which she struggled as something to her consciousness of wider thoughts and deeper motives but it was of no use to struggle a character at unity with that what it every impulse and has no visions beyond the distinctly possible � is strong by its very you may imagine that tom s more and more obvious to his was well fitted to the maternal and and mr s favorable reports and to mr concerning tom s for business began to be discussed amongst them with various acceptance he was likely it appeared to do the family credit without causing it any expense and trouble mrs always thought it strange if tom s excellent complexion so entirely that of the did not argue a certainty that he would turn out well his errors of running down the and general to his only indicating a tinge of blood which he had doubtless mr who had contracted a cautious l thb mill ok the liking for ever since his spirited and sensible behavior when the execution was in the was now warming into a resolution to further his prospects � some an opportunity offered of doing so in a prudent manner without ultimate loss but mrs observed that she was not given to speak without book as some people were that those who said least were most likely to find their words made good and when the right moment came it would be seen who could do something better than talk uncle after silent meditation for a period of several came distinctly to the conclusion that when a young man was likely to do well it was better not to with him tom meanwhile had shown no disposition to rely on any one but himself though with a natural towards all indication of opinion he was glad to see his look in on him sometimes in a friendly way during business hours and glad to be invited to dine at his house though he usually preferred declining on the ground that he was not sure of punctual but about a year ago something had occurred which induced tom to test his uncle s friendly disposition bob who rarely returned from one of his rounds without seeing tom and awaited him on the bridge as he was coming home from st s one evening that they might have a little private talk he took the liberty of asking if mr tom had ever thought of making money by trading a bit on his own account trading how tom wished to know why by sending out a bit of a cargo to foreign ports because bob had a particular friend who had offered to do a little business for him in that way in goods and would be glad to serve mr tom on the same footing tom was interested at once and begged for full explanation wondering he had not thought of this plan before he was so well pleased with the prospect of a speculation that might change the slow process of addition into that he at once determined to mention the matter to his father and et his consent to appropriate some of the in the tm box to the purchase of a small cargo he would rather not have consulted his father but he had just paid his last quarter s money into the tin box and there was no other resource all the were there for mr would not consent to put the money out at interest lest he should lose it since he had in the purchase of some com and had lost by it he could not be easy without the money under ms eye tom approached the subject carefully as h was seated on the mill on the the hearth with his father that evening and mr listened leaning forward in his arm chair and looking np in tom s face with a glance his first impulse was to give a positive refusal but he was in some awe of tom s wishes and since he had had the sense of being an unlucky ther he had lost some of his old and determination to be master he took the key of the from his pocket got out the key of the large chest and fetched down the tin box � slowly as if he were trying to the moment of a painful parting then he seated himself against the table and opened the box with that little key which he 