"Keeping accounts and acting as her private secretary."
"Do you like it?"
"Yes; I find it very pleasant, or would be but for one thing."
"What is that?"
"She has relatives living in the house who do not like me."
"Jealous, eh?"
"Perhaps so."
"Let me say frankly, that you are fitted for something higher. I am a good judge of men—"
Ben smiled.
"Boys, then; and I consider you a boy of excellent business capacity. After I have got my oil wells under way, I should like to engage you as superintendent."