“You must go with us, hand it to the proprietor and beg his pardon,” said the officers.
This at first seemed a most difficult task, but when they promised to accompany him to the store he agreed.
When at the door of the great store he asked the officers to step aside.
“If I do this you will not tell the president, will you?”
“Of course not, he shall never know anything about it.”
He walked in, took an elevator and soon stood before the manager of the store.
He told how he saw it on the counter and “hooked it when the girls were not looking, but I will never do anything like this again.”
The manager thanked the boy for his determination to do better and told him he would forgive him for the theft, and promised to give him a position in the store if the officers of the association would bring him there when he was through school.
The president learned of this incident a month later but never knew the name of the newsboy.