“I hope you won’t break with him, Mr. Snodgrass.”
“No, I do not wish to injure him, but hereafter he will not monopolize me.”
The next day, as Ben was entering the Fifth Avenue Hotel, he met Grant Griswold, of the Manhattan Athletic Club, under whose care he had originally come to New York.
“How do you do, Mr. Griswold?” said Ben, going up to his old friend and offering his hand.
Mr. Griswold looked puzzled.
“I am afraid I don’t remember you,” he said.
“Don’t you remember the boy who came to New York on the same steamer with you?”
“Why, yes, it is Ben,” said the clubman, looking pleased. “I have often thought of you. And how have you prospered?”
“Famously,” answered Ben with a smile.
“Have you been in New York all the time?”