Just then Mr. Gladden, of the large down-town firm of Gladden & Co., came into the store, and, seeing Richard, saluted him cordially.
"How are you this morning, Mr. Hunter?" he said. "Are you on your way down town?"
"Yes, sir," said Richard.
"Come with me. We will take an omnibus together;" and the two walked out of the store in familiar conversation.
"I shouldn't think such a man as Mr. Gladden would notice a low boot-black," said Roswell, bitterly.
The rest of the day he was made unhappy by the thought of Dick's prosperity, and his own hard fate, in being merely a clerk in a bookstore with a salary of six dollars a week.