Orion had been trying to make a living in the law ever since he had arrived from the Pacific Coast, but he had secured only two cases.

Those he was to try free of charge--but the possible result will never be known, because the parties settled the cases out of court without his help.
Orion got a job as proof-reader on the New York "Evening Post" at ten dollars a week.

By and by he came to Hartford and wanted me to get him a place as reporter on a Hartford paper.

Here was a chance to try my scheme again, and I did it.

I made him go to the Hartford "Evening Post," without any letter of introduction, and propose to scrub and sweep and do all sorts of things for nothing, on the plea that he didn't need money but only needed work, and that that was what he was pining for.