CHAPTER XXXIII
IN PARTNERSHIP.
At the end of the week Joshua received the six dollars promised him. He received it with great satisfaction. It was a tangible evidence that he was a clerk on salary.
“I wish it were more,” said Mr. Remington, as he paid it to him. “I am thinking of some new arrangements by which I shall be able to do better by you.”
This was encouraging, and Joshua was led to hope that he might, ere long, receive the sum which he claimed to get in his letter to Sam. He began to build castles in the air, and form sanguine pictures of what the future was to bring him, when all at once his dreams were rudely broken in upon.
It was three mornings afterward that Mr. Remington called him to the desk.
“Drummond,” he said, “I’ve something to say to you.”
Of course, Joshua gave immediate attention.
“You remember that I told you something of a nephew, my sister’s child, who expects the place I gave to you.”
“Yes,” said Joshua, uneasily.
“Well, it appears that my sister is very much disturbed that I refused to give it to her son. I have just received a letter from her. Here it is.”