WHITE & CO.

stumbled on a treasure in James Seaton.

Your colonial clerk is not so narrow and apathetic as your London clerk, whose two objects seem to be to learn one department only, and not to do too much in that; but Seaton, a gentleman and a scholar, eclipsed even colonial clerks in this, that he omitted no opportunity of learning the whole business of White & Co., and was also animated by a feverish zeal that now and then provoked laughter from clerks, but was agreeable as well as surprising to White & Co.

Of that zeal his incurable passion was partly the cause.
Fortunes had been made with great rapidity in Sydney; and Seaton now conceived a wild hope of acquiring one, by some lucky hit, before Wardlaw could return to Helen Rolleston.

And yet his common sense said, if I was as rich as Croesus, how could she ever mate with me, a stained man?
And yet his burning heart said, don't listen to reason; listen only to me.
Try.
And so he worked double tides; and, in virtue of his university education, had no snobbish notions about never putting his hand to manual labor.