Now, I am not sure that you acted wisely in undertaking a task so difficult, since it was not necessary, and your stepfather could hardly have refused to support you at home.

However, as you have taken the decisive step, we must consider what is best to do under the circumstances.

What work have you been doing ?" "I have been selling tea for the Great Pekin Tea Company." "How have you succeeded ?" "I have not been able to pay expenses," Frank admitted.
"How have you made up the difference ?" "I brought about fifty dollars with me from home." "Is it all used up ?" "I had thirty-five dollars left, sir, but a day or two since one of my fellow boarders opened my trunk and borrowed it without leave." "Of course you won't recover it ?" "I don't think there is much chance of it, sir." "Then probably your money is nearly exhausted ?" Frank did not like to admit his poverty, but owned up that he had less than two dollars.
"And yet you paid the car fares of this little boy and his mother ?" "I hope, sir, I would not refuse to assist a lady when in trouble." Mr.Percival nodded two or three times, smiling as he did so.

He was becoming more and more favorably impressed without young hero.
"Do you mean to continue this tea agency ?" he asked.
"No, sir; I have already notified my employers that I do not care to continue it." "Have you anything else in view ?" Frank felt that now was the time to speak.
"I came here this evening," he said, "intending to ask you if you knew of any situation I could fill, or could recommend me to employment of any kind by which I might make a living." "I must consider that.

Have you thought of any particular employment which you would like ?" "No, sir; I cannot afford to be particular.