2/12 I offer you the place, with a salary of twelve hundred dollars a year. What do you say ?" The young man's heart beat for a moment with repressible excitement. He was offered, deducting vacations, about one hundred and twenty-five dollars a month, while heretofore his highest wages had been but eighteen dollars per month and board. Moreover, he could marry at once the young lady to whom he had been for years engaged. |