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performing the operation.”

“I see you are laughing at me, father,” said Henry.

“Not at all. You can see that I am very sober. If you think you can make a good living hunting Indians—I don't know myself how much their scalps bring in the market—I might set you up in the business.”

“I am not so foolish as I was. I prefer some other business. Philip told me—”

“Where is Philip?” asked Jennie eagerly.

“I left him in the parlor. He said I had better come in first.”

“Go and call him. Invite him, with my compliments, to stay to dinner.”

Henry left the room, and reappeared almost immediately with Philip.

Both boys were perfectly neat in appearance, for Philip had insisted on going to a hotel and washing and dressing themselves.

As he followed Henry into the room, with modest self-possession, his cheeks glowing with a healthy color, both Jennie and Mr. Taylor were instantly prepossessed in his favor.

“I am glad to see you, Philip,” said the broker, “and beg to thank you, not only for the material help you gave Henry, but also for the good advice, which I consider of still greater importance and value.”

“Thank you, sir. I don't feel competent to give much advice, but I thought his best course was to come home.”

“You haven't as high an idea of hunting Indians as Henry, I infer?”

“No, sir,” answered Philip, smiling. “It seems to me they have as much right to live as we, if they behave themselves.”

“I think so, too,” said Henry, who was rather ashamed of what had once been his great ambition.

“You haven't introduced me to Philip—I mean Mr. Gray,” said Jennie.

“This is my sister Jennie, Phil,” said Henry, in an off-hand manner.

“I am very glad to see you, Mr. Gray,” said Jennie, extending her hand.

“I am hardly used to that name,” said Philip, smiling.

“When I get well acquainted with you I shall call you Philip.”

“I hope you will.”

Within an hour Miss Jennie appeared to feel well acquainted with her brother's friend, for she dropped “Mr. Gray” altogether, and called him Philip.

At her solicitation he played on his violin. Both Mr. Taylor and Jennie were surprised at the excellence of his execution.

When Philip rose to go, Mr. Taylor said cordially:

“I cannot permit you to leave us, Philip. You must remain here as our guest.”

“But, sir, I left my things at a hotel.”

“Then Henry will go with you and get them.”

So Philip found himself established in a fine house on Madison Avenue as a favored guest.

The next morning, when Mr. Taylor went to his office, he asked Philip to go with him. Arrived in Wall Street, he sent a boy to the bank with a check. On his return, he selected five twenty-dollar bills, and handed them to Philip.

“You have expended some money for Henry,” he said.

“Yes, sir; but not quarter as much as this.”

“Then accept the rest as a gift. You will probably need some new clothes. Henry will take you to our tailor. Don't spare expense. The bill will be sent to me.”

“But, Mr. Taylor, I do not deserve such kindness.”

“Let me be the judge of that. In a few days I shall have a proposal to make to you.”

This was the proposal, and the way it was made:

“I find, Philip,” said Mr. Taylor, some days later, “that Henry is much attached to you, and that your influence over him is excellent. He has agreed to go to an academy in Connecticut, and study hard for a year, provided you will go with him. I take it for granted you haven't completed your education?”

“No, sir.”

“I shall pay all the bills and provide for you in every way, exactly as I do for Henry.”

“But, Mr. Taylor, how can I ever repay you?” asked Philip.

“By being Henry's friend and adviser—perhaps, I may say, guardian—for, although you are about the same age, you are far wiser and more judicious.”

“I will certainly do the best I can for him, sir.”

During the next week the two boys left New York, and became pupils at Doctor Shelley's private academy, at Elmwood—a pleasant country town not far from Long Island Sound—and there we bid them adieu.

THE END.



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