"Then he had better mind his own business. My father may get him discharged from his place there."
"That is more than he can do. Mr. Tower puts great confidence in Scott."
"Do you know what he pays him?"
"Forty dollars a week."
"Nonsense!" said Loammi, angrily.
"It is true."
"Then Mr. Tower is a fool."
"Why don't you call and tell him so?"
A really mean person can receive no heavier blow than to find his malicious attempt to injure another of no avail. This was the case with Loammi.
When he was forced to believe that Scott really received the high salary he had contemptuously scoffed at, he became more discontented than ever. He tried to get his father to increase his allowance, but without success. He was mortified to find that even Harold vied with him in dress.