Mine is only the cause why you are not paid at once." "My dear fellow," said the doctor, laying his hand on the boy's, "I am not such a very old man--it is not so very long since I was a student myself--in your country too--at Edinburgh--that I should forget what it is to be a student, or how often money is scarce in the midst of every other kind of plenty and refinement." "But I am not exactly a student now.

I have been making a little money as tutor; only--" "Don't trouble your head about it, I beg of you," interrupted the doctor.

"It is the merest trifle.

Besides, I should never have thought of taking a fee from you! I am well paid in the pleasure of making your acquaintance .-- But there is one way," he added, "in which you could make me a return." "What is that ?" asked Cosmo eagerly.
"To borrow a little money of me for a few months?
I am not at all hard up at present.

I had to borrow many a time when I was in Edinburgh." The boy-heart of Cosmo swelled in his bosom, and for a time he could not answer.