“I consider myself fortunate in having him in my department. I wish he were my son,” smiled the buyer. Then he bade them a kindly good night and walked on, leaving a happy-faced quartette behind him.
“Here’s our car,” called Teddy. “Come on, Mother. Good-bye, Martin Brothers. I’ll see you after vacation.” He waved his hand at the huge building which had sheltered and schooled the two boys and which held the promise of a future for them both far greater than they could then dream or know.
Yet Harry and Teddy knew only too well that in order to become successful business men they must, as boys, lay a sure foundation on which to build their careers. They must be ready to greet each day with a smile and live it for all it was worth. To do the little things cheerfully and well, in the hope of greater things to come was to be their watchword. The story of their return to Martin Brothers’ store after their hard-earned vacation, and what befell them on the field of duty, remains yet to be told.
Those who have followed the two lads through their first year as business boys will meet them once more and learn just what happened to them next in the second volume of this series, “Harry Harding’s Year of Promise.”
THE END
Transcriber’s Notes:
Printer's, punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.
Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.