CHAPTER XXVIII.
A LUCKY RESOLVE.
"Well, Richard, we are gentlemen of leisure now."
It was Frank who spoke, and the occasion was the Monday morning following their final week with Williams & Mann.
"Yes; but it doesn't suit me in the least," returned Richard. "To be idle is the hardest work I can do. Have you anything in view?"
"Not a thing. I put in twelve applications last week to as many different houses, but as yet I haven't heard from a single one."
"What do you intend to do?"
"I hardly know. I don't think it will pay to make any personal applications."
"I'm going to try it," returned Richard, resolutely. "They can't say any more than no, and each no will save just two cents in postage if nothing else."
"When do you intend to start out," asked Frank, who could not help admiring Richard's pluck.