"Sixteen."
"That is very good pay for a boy of your age."
"Yes, sir; I don't know any other employment that would give me as much."
"But of course you must give it up sooner or later."
"I thought of that, sir."
"Will you be sorry?"
"Only because when I take a position elsewhere I must make up my mind to earn considerably less, and I can't see my way clear to do it while my mother and sister are so dependent upon me."
"I suppose you know that I am a rich man?"
"Yes, sir, I have always heard so," answered Paul, not quite understanding why Mr. Bradford should say it.
"I have always held that a rich man owes a debt to the world, and should try to liquidate it by doing all the good in his power."