I'll answer for his good character."

"That will be satisfactory. But what sort of a place does he want?"

"He is ready to begin as cash-boy."

"Then we can oblige you, as one of our boys has fallen sick, and we have
not supplied his place. I'll speak to Mr. Gilbert."

He went up to Mr. Gilbert, a portly man in the back part of the store.
Mr. Gilbert seemed to be asking two or three questions. Frank waited the
result in suspense, dreading another disappointment, but this time he
was fortunate.

"The boy can stay," reported Duncan. "His wages are three dollars a
week."

It was not much, but Frank was well pleased to feel that at last he had
a place in the city.

He wrote a letter to Grace in the evening, announcing his success, and
expressing the hope that he would soon be able to send for her.



CHAPTER VII

THE CASH BOY HAS AN ADVENTURE