“You won’t be a novice very long, and I paid that salary to my clerk who is sick.”
“You are very liberal, sir.”
“I have good reason to be.”
When Guy reported his engagement to Captain Grover, that officer congratulated him.
“It is a great thing,” he said, “to have won the favor of a rich merchant like Mr. Saunders. Besides, the knowledge you will obtain of business will be of infinite value to you.”
So Guy went to work the next day.
Of course, everything was new at first, but he had a thorough training as a student, and he set to work to learn business in the same way he had learned Greek, Latin, and mathematics at school. The result was that he made such progress as to surprise Mr. Saunders.
“You have already become of value to me,” the merchant said one day.
“Didn’t you think I would, sir?”
“I thought it would take longer to break you in. You have the making of a very successful business man in you.”