It is a mark of appreciation which cannot be mistaken.
Still Harry said nothing, but, with a manner as unconcerned as possible, handed the lower half of the essay to Clapp to set up.

The signature "Franklin" had been cut off, and the name of the paper from which the essay had been cut was substituted.
"Wouldn't Clapp feel disgusted," thought Harry, "if he knew that he was setting up an article of mine.

I believe he would have a fit." He was too considerate to expose his fellow-workman to such a contingency, and went about his work in silence.
That evening he wrote to the publisher of the "Standard," inclosing the price of two copies of the last number, which he desired should be sent to him by mail.

He wished to keep one himself, and the other he intended to forward to his father, who, he knew, would sympathize with him in his success as well as his aspirations.

He accompanied the paper by a letter in which he said,-- "I want to improve in writing as much as, I can.