You are a journeyman not a master workman, so if you don't succeed, it does not count.

The future is what I look to, for you.

I had to stop my work to say all this, so good-bye dear old chum.
Yours, MOTHER.
If anything worried Richard at all at this period, I think it was his desire to get down to steady newspaper work, or indeed any kind of work that would act as the first step of his career and by which he could pay his own way in the world.

It was with this idea uppermost in his mind in the late spring of 1886, and without any particular regret for the ending of his college career, that he left Baltimore and, returning to his home in Philadelphia, determined to accept the first position that presented itself.

But instead of going to work at once, he once more changed his plans and decided to sail for Santiago de Cuba with his friend William W.Thurston, who as president of the Bethlehem Steel Company, was deeply interested in the iron mines of that region.