You may rest assured, Mr.Walton, that I need it." Was this the proud Fitzgerald Fletcher, suing, for the means of supporting himself, to one whom, as a boy, he had despised and looked down upon?
Surely, the world is full of strange changes and mutations of fortune.

Here was a chance for Harry to triumph over his old enemy; but he never thought of doing it.

Instead, he was filled with sympathy for one who, unlike himself, had gone down in the social scale, and he cordially promised to see what he could do for Fletcher, and that without delay.
On inquiry, he found that Fletcher was qualified to discharge the duties of a clerk, and secured his appointment to a clerkship in the Treasury Department, on a salary of twelve hundred dollars a year.
It was an income which Fletcher would once have regarded as wholly insufficient for his needs; but adversity had made him humble, and he thankfully accepted it.

He holds the position still, discharging the duties satisfactorily.

He is glad to claim the Hon.