“‘Really,’ he said, ‘that is nothing to me.’
“‘Can’t you give me employment?’ I asked.
“‘I have no places vacant,’ he answered coldly.
“‘What am I to do?’ I asked. ‘I have no money.’
“‘Surely you don’t expect me to support you,’ he said impatiently. ‘You have no claim upon me.’
“Then I bethought myself of a clever scheme.
“‘Surely,’ I said, ‘you will repay me the sum I paid out for the boy’s funeral.’
“He reflected a moment, and then answered in the affirmative.
“‘Yes,’ he said, ‘if you will give me a receipt in due form.’
“I went out of the office with one hundred dollars in my pocket.”