“You mean you wish you knew how to use the brains and backbone you possess yourself.”
“Have it any way you like. Suppose you take this hundred and use it for me when you make your next plunge.”
“I might lose it.”
“I’ll risk that.”
“You’d better talk it over with Annie, and if she says so, I’ll make you a sort of junior partner.”
“No; will you?” asked Ed, eagerly.
“Of course I will.”
By this time the lads had reached the neighborhood of their homes, and accordingly separated, Ed promising to come over to Jack’s house next day.
For many weeks after that the young messenger boy saw no favorable chance to make another venture on the stock market.
He attended faithfully to his duties and was many times commended by Mr. Atherton for strict attention to the firm’s interests.