ho had just given it to him. "Ah!
you have just arrived from the old land," he said, a smile of genial
welcome illuminating his handsome face. "I am pleased to hear from my
old friend, Sir Archibald Brodie, and pleased to welcome any friend of
his to Canada."

So saying, with fine old-time courtesy, the banker rose to his splendid
height of six feet two, and shook his visitor warmly by the hand.

"Your name is--?"

"Cameron, Sir," said the young man.

"Yes, I see! Mr. Allan Cameron--um, um," with his eyes on the letter.
"Old and distinguished family--exactly so! Now, then, Mr. Cameron, I
hope we shall be able to do something for you, both for the sake of my
old friend, Sir Archibald, and, indeed, for your own sake," said the
banker, with a glance of approval at Cameron's upright form.

"Sit down, Sir! Sit down! Now, business first is my motto. What can I do
for you?"

"Well, first of all," said Cameron with a laugh, "I wish to make a
deposit. I have a draft of one hundred pounds here which I should like
to place in your care."

"Very well, Sir," said the banker, touching a button, "my young man will
attend to that."

"Now, then," when the business had been transacted, "what are your
plans, Mr. Cameron? Thirty-five years ago I came to Montreal a young
man, from Scotland, like yourself, and it was a lonely day for me when
I reached this city, the loneliest in my life, and so my heart warms
to the stranger from the old land. Yes," continued Mr. Ritchie, in a
reminiscent tone, "I remember well! I hired as errand boy and general
factotum to a small grocer down near the market. Montreal was a small
city then, with wretched streets--they're bad enough yet--and poor
buildings; everything was slow and backward; there have been mighty
changes since. But here we are! Now, what are your plans?"

"I am afraid they are of the vaguest kind," said Cameron. "I want
something to do."

"What sort of thing? I mean, what has been the line of your training?"

"I am afraid my training has been defective. I have passed through
Edinburgh Academy, also the University, with the exception of my last
year. But I am willing to take anything."

"Ah!" said the banker thoughtfully. "No office training, eh?"

"No, Sir. That is, if you except a brief period of three or four months
in the law office of our family solicitor."

"Law, eh?--I have it! Denman's your man! I shall give you a letter to
Mr. Denman--a lawyer friend of mine. I shal