“I mean it. We don't live very high-falutin', but we have plenty o' plain, good victuals.”
“I'll remember what you say,” answered our hero.
An hour later he saw the countryman on a train bound for home, and then he started once more to look for a situation.
CHAPTER XVII.
JOE'S NEW POSITION.
All of that afternoon Joe looked for a position among the various hotels of the Quaker City. But at each place he visited he received the same answer, that there was no help needed just then.
“This is discouraging,” he told himself, as he retired that night. “Perhaps I'll have to go to the country or back to Riverside after all.”
Yet he was up bright and early the next day and just as eager as ever to obtain a situation.
He had heard of a new hotel called the Grandon House and visited it directly after breakfast.