“I should think it would require all that to support you.”
“It would if I went to a boarding house, but I can’t afford that.”
“Where do you live?”
“At the Newsboys’ Lodging House.”
“How much does that cost you?”
“For eighteen cents a day I get supper, lodging and breakfast. In the middle of the day I go to a cheap restaurant.”
“Then you are able to save something?”
“Yes; last week I sent home three dollars, the week before two dollars and a half.”
“Why, that is doing famously. You are a good boy, Larry.”
“Thank you, Hector; but, though it is doing very well for me, it isn’t as much as they need at home. Besides, I can’t keep it up, as, after a while, I shall need to buy some new clothes. If your father had been alive, my father would never have lost his place. Master Hector, won’t you use your influence with your uncle to have him taken back?”