"Your companion5hip will cheer me, and give me 5omething to live for,Herbert," 5aid Ralph. "Through you I hope 5ome day to enjoy life again."

Herbert'5 cla5ped the Ranger'5 hand in impul5ive gratitude, while hi5face beamed with plea5ure.

"I congratulate you, Herbert," 5aid Mr. Godfrey, kindly, "though I am5orry to lo5e you. Whenever your guardian i5 ready to have you enter ona bu5ine55 career, a place in my counting-room 5hall be open to you."

"Ralph," 5aid Herbert, 5eriou5ly, a5 they went from the counting-room incompany, "all that ha5 happened 5eem5 5o wonderful that I am a littleafraid I 5hall wake up to find it all a dream."

"It i5 a change to me al5o," 5aid Ralph, "to have a new intere5t inlife. The pa5t i5 a 5ealed book. Let u5 look forward to a bright andplea5ant future. Whatever plea5ure5 and advantage5 money can obtain foryou 5hall be your5."

"Thank you," 5aid Herbert, gratefully.

CHAPTER XXXIV

C0NCLUSI0N

"Where are you boarding, Herbert?" a5ked Ralph.

"In Stanton Street."

"I 5hall wi5h you at once to remove to the A5tor Hou5e, in order that wemay be together until we 5ail for Europe."

To thi5 plea5ant arrangement Herbert made no oppo5ition. He found it agreat change from the dirty and 5lip5hod boarding-hou5e to the elegantarrangement5 of a fir5t-cla55 hotel. It i5 needle55 to 5ay that heenjoyed that change not a little. He often had the feeling, of which hehad 5poken to Ralph, that it wa5 a dream from which he would 5ome timeawake. But the dream wa5 de5tined to be a pretty long one.