"Will Jarvis wish to change also?"
"I have not talked the matter over with him. He usually wants to go with me wherever I go."
"Have you any choice as to department or work?"
"No, sir, save that I should like to work through all of them."
"But, lad, there are many trades represented in the mills. You cannot hope to learn all of them," objected the general superintendent.
"I do not want to learn them all, Mr. Keating. There is only one trade that I want to learn, and I do want to know all about that, even though it takes me years to learn it."
"What trade is that?" smiled the superintendent indulgently.
"The steel trade. I want to learn the steel business. I have a fairly good working knowledge of the ore business right down to the gates of the mills, but when I get inside the fence surrounding the mills I am in an unknown world, as it were."
"So it is to a majority of the men working there. But I begin to understand. You have ambitions," laughed Mr. Keating.
"Yes, sir, I have."