felt whenever he reflected upon the contents of
that drawer, and with what an important air of joint ownership
he regarded the bank building in which his small savings were
deposited.

CHAPTER XV

DICK SECURES A TUTOR

The next morning Dick was unusually successful, having plenty to do,
and receiving for one job twenty-five cents,--the gentleman refusing
to take change. Then flashed upon Dick's mind the thought that he
had not yet returned the change due to the gentleman whose boots he
had blacked on the morning of his introduction to the reader.

"What'll he think of me?" said Dick to himself. "I hope he won't
think I'm mean enough to keep the money."

Now Dick was scrupulously honest, and though the temptation to be
otherwise had often been strong, he had always resisted it. He was
not willing on any account to keep money which did not belong to
him, and he immediately started for 125 Fulton Street (the address
which had been given him) where he found Mr. Greyson's name on the
door of an office on the first floor.

The door being open, Dick walked in.

"Is Mr. Greyson in?" he asked of a clerk who sat on a high stool
before a desk.

"Not just now. He'll be in soon. Will you wait?"

"Yes," said Dick.

"Very well; take a seat then."

Dick sat down and took up the morning "Tribune," but presently
came to a word of four syllables, which he pronounced to himself a
"sticker," and laid it down. But he had not long to wait, for five
minutes later Mr. Greyson entered.

"Did you wish to speak to me, my lad?" said he to Dick, whom in his
new clothes he did not recognize.

"Yes, sir," said Dick. "I owe you some money."

"Indeed!" said Mr. Greyson, pleasantly; "that's an agreeable
surprise. I didn't know but you had come for some. So you are
a debtor of mine, and not a creditor?"

"I b'lieve that's right," said Dick, drawing fifteen cents from his
pocket, and placing in Mr. Greyson's hand.

"Fifteen cents!" repeated he, in some surprise. "How do you happen
to be indebted to me in that amount?"

"You gave me a quarter for a-shinin' your boots, yesterday mornin',
and couldn't wait for the change. I meant to have brought it before,
but I forgot all about it till this mornin'."

"It had quite slipped my mind also. But you don't look like the boy
I employed. If I remember rightly he wasn't as well dressed as you."

"No," said Dick. "I was dressed for a party, then, but the clo'es
was too well ventilated