After he was gone she put the silver carefully away and interviewed the hero, as often before, with a shingle.
"Not only for playing hookey," she said; "but for going into the water at all." The little fellow rescued that day is Thomas McCaffery, now a member of the Alleghany City Fire Department.

Many years afterwards he gave Paul a gold medal in remembrance of their first meeting.
In vacation Paul started out to look for work, for with all his wildness he was industrious.

He secured a place in a paper box factory at the princely salary of fifty cents a week.

His business was to lower great packages of boxes from the upper story to the ground floor.

He thought how delightful it would be to go down himself on the rope.