her father s release from prison by the hand of death � the only change of circumstance he could foresee that might enable him to be such a friend to her as he wished to be by her whole manner of life her rough road and giving her a home � he regarded her in that perspective as his adopted daughter his poor child of the hushed to rest if there were a last subject in his thoughts and it lay towards its form was so indefinite that it was little move than the atmosphere in which these other subjects floated before him � little he had crossed tho heath and was leaving it behind when he gained upon a figure which had been in advance of him for some time and which as he gained upon it he thought he knew he derived this impression from something in the turn of the head and in the figure s action of consideration as it went on at a sufficiently sturdy walk but when the man � for it was a man s figure � pushed his hat up at the back of his head and stopped to consider some object before him he knew it to be daniel how do you do mr said him i am glad to see you again and in a place than the office ha mr s friend exclaimed that public criminal coming out of some mental he had been making and offering his hand i am glad to see you sir will you excuse me if i forget your name readily it s not a celebrated name it s not no no said daniel laughing and now i know what it is it s how do you do mr i have some hope said arthur as they walked on together that we maybe going to the same place mr meaning returned daniel i am glad to hear it they were soon quite intimate and lightened the way with a variety of conversation the ingenious was a man of great modesty and good sense and though a plain man had been too much accustomed to combine was original and daring in conception with what was patient and minute in execution to be by any means an ordinary man it was at first difficult to lead him to speak about himself and he put oft arthur s advances in that direction by admitting slightly oh yes he had done this and he had done that and such a of his making and such another thing was his discover but it was his trade you see his trade until as he gradually became assured that his companion had a real interest in his account of himself he frankly yielded to it then it appeared that he was the son of a blacksmith and had originally been by his mother to a lock maker that he had struck out a few little things at the lock maker s which had led to his being released from his with a present which present had enabled him to gratify his ardent wish to bind himself to a working engineer under whom he had labored hard learned hard and lived hard seven years his time being out he bad worked in the shop at weekly wages seven or eight years more and had then himself to the banks of the where he had studied and filed and and improved his knowledge and practical for six or seven years more there he had had an offer to go to which he had accepted and from had been engaged to go to germany and in germany had had an offer to go to st and there had done very well indeed � never better however he had naturally felt a preference for his own country and a wish to gain distinction there and to do whatever service he could do there rather than elsewhere and so he had come home and so at home he had established himself in little business and had invented and executed and worked his way on until after a dozen years of constant suit and service he had been in the great british of honor the of the of the office and had been decorated with the great british order of merit the order of the disorder of the and it is much to be regretted said that you ever turned your thoughts that way mr true sir true to a certain extent but what is a man to do if he has the misfortune to strike out something serviceable to the nation he must follow where it leads him hadn t he better let it go asked he can t do it said shaking his head with a thoughtful smile it s not put into his head to be buried it s put into his head to be made useful you hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it every man holds a discovery on the same terms that is to say said arthur with a growing admiration of his quiet companion you are not finally discouraged even now i have no right to be if i am returned the other the thing is as true as it ever was when they had walked a little way in silence at once to change the direct point of their conversation and not to change it too abruptly asked mr if he had any partner in his business to relieve him of a portion of its anxieties no he returned not at present i had when i first entered on it and a good man he was but he has been dead some years and as i could not easily take to the notion of another when i lost him i bought his share for myself and have gone on by myself ever since and here s another thing he said 