But Mr.Curtis never wavered in his faith in his proposition and his editor.

In the first he invested all he had and could borrow, and to the latter he gave his undivided support.

The two men worked together rather as father and son--as, curiously enough, they were to be later--than as employer and employee.

To Bok, the daily experience of seeing Mr.
Curtis finance his proposition in sums that made the publishing world of that day gasp with sceptical astonishment was a wonderful opportunity, of which the editor took full advantage so as to learn the intricacies of a world which up to that time he had known only in a limited way.
What attracted Bok immensely to Mr.Curtis's methods was their perfect simplicity and directness.

He believed absolutely in the final outcome of his proposition: where others saw mist and failure ahead, he saw clear weather and the port of success.