"I am Allen Allston."
CHAPTER II.
AL TALKS BUSINESS.
Mr. Wattles stared at the boy a moment in speechless surprise, then burst into a loud laugh.
"You don't mean to say," he almost gasped, "that you made that application for yourself?"
"That's just what I mean to say, sir," replied the lad, quietly.
"Why, you must be crazy!"
"I don't think I am."
"You are only a boy."
"I'll get over that in time, Mr. Wattles; and besides, that fact is no proof that I am crazy."