Ruby's Reward — page 15: what you’re looking at

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“T have made you an offer, Walter; If you do not choose to accept it, 1 wash my hands of you entirely,” was the coldreply. ‘“Ifeel that you have had a great deal done for you already—more than any boy, situated as you were, had any right to expect. My father was ulxotic in some of his notions, but, of course, if he chose to indulge in sentiment on your account, he could afford to do it, and it was no affair of mine, although I must confess I have always considered it a mark of dis- respect toward my mother that he should have con- tessed to a weulness for another woman and installed her son here ou an equal footing with his own. But now matters are upon an entirely different basis; Ihave no money to throw away upon uncertalntiles, and I have no Hee that you would ever be able to make an efficient architect, even if you study tor that purpose. If you choose to accept my offer, well and ¢& , it not, you a rea select yourown path and walk unaided With which unfeeling speech, Edmund Carpenter arose and abruptly left the room, thus putting an end to the conference. comichooks.conm