Mark Mason's Victory: The Trials and Triumphs of a Telegraph Boy

BY Horatio Alger, JR., Author of Joe's Luck, Tom the Bootblack, Dan the Newsboy, The Errand Boy, etc., etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
NEW YORK: A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER.
Copyright, 1899, by A. L. BURT. MARK MASON'S VICTORY. By Horatio Alger, Jr.

That is the City Hall over there, Edgar.
The speaker was a man of middle age, with a thin face and a nose like a Hawk. He was well dressed, and across his vest was visible a showy gold chain with a cameo charm attached to it.
The boy, probably about fifteen, was the image of his father. They were crossing City Hall Park in New York and Mr. Talbot was pointing out to his son the public buildings which make this one of the noted localities in the metropolis.
Shine? asked a bootblack walking up to the pair.
I'd like to take a shine, father, said Edgar. What do you charge?
Five cents, but I don't object to a dime, replied the bootblack.