He kept her in pleasant conversation while with a free, bold hand, he sketched the outlines of her face and figure.
“I shall want one more sitting,” he said. “I will come to-morrow at this time.”
“Stop a minute,” said Peg. “I should like the money in advance. How do I know that you will come again?”
“Certainly, if you prefer it,” said the young man, opening his pocket-book.
“What strange fortune,” he thought, “can have brought these two together? Surely there can be no relationship.”
The next day he returned and completed his sketch, which was at once placed in the hands of the publisher, eliciting his warm approval.
CHAPTER XVII. JACK OBTAINS INFORMATION.
JACK set out with that lightness of heart and keen sense of enjoyment that seem natural to a young man of eighteen on his first journey. Partly by cars, partly by boat, he traveled, till in a few hours he was discharged, with hundreds of others, at the depot in Philadelphia.
Among the admonitions given to Jack on leaving home, one was prominently in his mind, to beware of imposition, and to be as economical as possible.