Fletcher's depreciation of him troubled him very little.
"It will make me neither worse nor better," he reflected.

"The time will come, I hope, when I shall have risen high enough to be wholly indifferent to such ill-natured sneers." His brother arrived in due time, and was set to work as Harry himself had been three years before.

He was not as smart as Harry, nor was he ever likely to rise as high; but he worked satisfactorily, and made good progress, so that in six months he was able to relieve Harry of half his labors as compositor.

This, enabled him to give more time to his editorial duties.

Both boarded at Ferguson's, where they had a comfortable home and good, plain fare.
Meanwhile, Harry was acknowledged by all to have improved the paper, and the most satisfactory evidence of the popular approval of his efforts came in an increased subscription list, and this, of course, made the paper more profitable.