My salary was doubled; I was getting on swimmingly.
"I kept this place for two years, and then I gave it up, against the wishes of my employer, because I had made up my mind that I wanted to get a better education.

I determined to go to college.
"I did not know how I was going to do this, except that it must be by my own efforts.

I had saved about eighty dollars from my store-keeping, and that was all the money I had in the world.
"When I told my employer of my plan, he tried to dissuade me from it.
He pointed out the difficulties in the way of my going to college, and offered to double my pay if I would stay in the store.
"That was the turning-point in my life.

In one side was the certainty of one hundred and twenty dollars a year, and the prospect of promotion as fast as I deserved it.

Remember what one hundred and twenty dollars meant on Prince Edward Island, and to me, a poor boy who had never possessed such a sum in his life.