[The Store Boy by Horatio Alger, Jr.]@TWC D-Link book
The Store Boy

CHAPTER XXXIV
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It's worth more." "Forty-five dollars!" ejaculated Conrad.

"Why, you must be a millionaire.

Where did you get so much money ?" "I didn't find it in the street," answered Fred jocularly.
"Can't you tell a feller?
You didn't save it out of your wages, did you ?" "My wages?
I should say not.

Why, I only get six dollars a week, and have to pay car fare and lunches out of that." "Then it isn't equal to my five dollars, for that is all clear.

But, all the same, I can't save anything." "Nor I." "Then how can you afford to buy forty-five dollar rings ?" "I don't mind telling you," said Fred.


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