Ralph Raymond's Heir

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Ralph Raymond's Heir, by Horatio Alger

By HORATIO ALGER, Jr.
Author of Mark Manning's Mission, A Debt of Honor, Bernard Brook's Adventures, Ben Bruce, Mark Mason's Victory, etc., etc.
A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

RALPH RAYMOND'S HEIR.
A man of middle age, muffled up in an overcoat, got out of a Third Avenue car, just opposite a small drug shop. Quickly glancing up and down the street with a furtive look, as if he wished to avoid recognition from any passerby who might know him, he entered the shop.
It was a small shop, not more than twelve feet wide by eighteen deep. The only person in attendance was a young man approaching thirty years of age, his eyes and hair very light, and his features small and insignificant. He was the druggist's clerk, working on a small salary of ten dollars a week, and his name was James Cromwell.

He came forward as the person first named entered the shop.
How can I serve you, sir? he inquired in a respectful voice.