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eThen [ will make you a proposition.” Edmund Car- penter returned. a hard, determined look settling over his face. “Since no provision appears to have been made for you by my father, you will doubtless feel the necessity of beginning to depend upon yourself. I wish to give you x fatr start in fe because of the interest which he manifested In you; therefore will arrange tor you to go into our Offleé as assistant book- keeper, giv- ing you oine dollars & week aud your board for the first year, with a promotion in view if you do well at your post.” Walter's heart sank heavily at this proposition. Was Le doomed to give up all thought of completing his education, and to $ go into a close, dark office where he must sif, day in and day out, cramped over a desk aud endless lines of Heures ? Must all his bright hopes o? becoming an architect and attiining eminence In the profession, be blighted in tis sudden and cruel manner? The* though: was vitterly obouoxlous to him. ‘ Tf,” continued Edimund, relentlessly, *‘you are still noxious to begin your architectural studies at once, there a evening schools where @rawing is taught in all its bravehes, and where In time you may, with applica- tion, be able to attain your desire and become an archl- oot." Walter's spirlh arose at this supreme trony and heart- less speach, He knew | that Ndmund Carpenter must have inherited neorly, Wf nob quite, & milton dollars from his father; he Ikney, Loo, that a portion of this money should have been his by virtue of the love that the dead man had borue him; and 1t was more than he could tamely bear to be Lold that be must enter an office for the paltry sum of nine dollars a week, which was Jess than his usual allowance for spending money hud been; and, more than this, that he must study nights, after the labors of the day, if he stlll entertained any ambitlon to become an architect. He looked up into the dark, sinister face opposite him, and said, resolutely - “Edmund Curpenter, Uncle Ralph told me, only the evening before he died, that he had made ample pro- vision for me, 2nd that there would be abundant means for me to study for whatever I liked after I should com- my college course. I am very sure he would not have been pleased with any such are on aslo you have proposed to me.” Deolks.com