CHAPTER XVI.
PEP.
In a week Richard felt quite at home, both in the stock-room at Williams
& Mann's and at the Massanets'.
During that time Mr. Williams had returned from Chicago, and both of
the members of the firm seemed to be well satisfied by the way in which
their new clerk discharged the duties assigned to him.
A warm friendship sprang up between Frank Massanet and Richard--a
friendship that was destined to bear important results. The stock-clerk,
though Richard's superior in the business, acted more like a chum, and
in the evenings the two, accompanied by Mattie Massanet, walked, talked,
played games, or listened to Mrs. Massanet's music on the flutina, and
were all but inseparable.
Richard received several letters from home--one from his mother,
congratulating him on the position he had secured, and another from
Grace and Nancy, full of village gossip, and what people had said about
his going away.
Both Frank and Richard loved their work, and by the second week the
books in the stock-room were in a neater and handier condition than
they had ever been before, and Frank expressed his pleasure at having
some one who could really help, and not hinder, as the discharged clerk
had done.
On Tuesday morning of the second week, Richard was hurrying to the
store a little earlier than usual.
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