mother. "I should be sorry to have you leave home," she said; "but I acknowledge the force of your reasons." "I shouldn't be happy at college, mother," responded Grant, "if I thought you were pinched at home." "If you were our only child, Grant, it would be different." "That is true; but there are Frank and Mary who would suffer. If I go to work I shall soon be able to help you take care of them." "You are a good and unselfish boy, Grant," said his mother. "I don't know about that, mother; I am consulting my own happiness as well as yours." "Yet you would like to go to college?" "If we had plenty of money, not otherwise. I don't want to enjoy advantages at the expense of you all." "Your Uncle Godfrey will be very angry," said Mrs. Thornton, thoughtfully. "I suppose he will, and I shall be sorry for it. I am grateful to him for his good intentions toward me, and I have no right to expect that he will feel as I do about the matter. If he is angry, I shall be sorry, but I don't think it ought to influence me." "You must do as you decide to be best, Grant. It is you who are most interested. But suppose you make up your mind to enter upon a business career, what chance have you of obtaining a place?" "I shall call upon Mr. Reynolds, and see if he has any place for me." "Who is Mr. Reynolds?" asked his mother, in some surprise. "I forgot that I didn't tell you of the gentleman whose acquaintance I made on my way up to the city. He is a Wall Street broker. His attention was drawn to me by something that he heard, and he offered to help me, if he could, to get employment." "It would cost something to go to New York, and after all there is no certainty that he could help you," said Mrs. Thornton, cautiously. "That is true, mother, but I think he would do something for me."