ittle town that seemed to demand his
attention.

And there was his chief setting him a bad example. The young man had
spent part of his first morning wandering through the mass of documents
and scraps of paper which Lawyer Ed called his book-keeping. Between
items of a professional nature were memoranda or reports of session
meetings, Highland Club meetings, political meetings, country
tea-meetings, everything and anything except law. What there was of
the latter was connected only with such clients as were of ample means.
All the poor folk for miles around came to Lawyer Ed with their
troubles and were advised, scolded, pulled or paid out of them, and
never so much as a stroke of a pen to record the good deed. If they
paid him, well and good; if they did not, so much the better. And the
price of a ticket to the Holy Land and back--that trip which had not
yet materialised--might have been many times written down, had Lawyer
Ed known anything about book-keeping. But Lawyer Ed's policy in all
his career, had been something the same as that of his friend Doctor
Blair across the way--to keep his people of his practice well, rather
than to cure them when they were ill. So if he could manage it none of
his clients ever went into a law-court. It was good for the clients,
but bad for such things as trips abroad. Roderick did not see that
side of his chief's book-keeping. He did not know that the man could
put through more work in an hour than most men could in a day, and saw
only the meetings recorded which took so much of his time. And he said
to himself that that was not the way to become great. Some day he
intended to be one of the leading advocates of Canada. He was not
conceited. His was only the boundless hopefulness of youth coupled
with the assurance which experience had already given him, that
whenever he set his mind to anything, he accomplished it, no matter how
many difficulties stood in the way. So he was determined to
concentrate all his efforts on his work, and as for serving humanity,
he could do it best, he assured himself, by being a success in his
profession.

He was just entering upon his second day when his advice was sought
from an unexpected source and in connection with an entirely new
subject. Lawyer Ed had gone out and Roderick was seated at his desk
when some one entered the hall and tapped hesitatingly on the inner
door. Roderick called an invitation to come in, and Mr. Alfred Wilb