Don't try
to get rich by taking short cuts that lead nowhere."
But as he grew stronger and was able to listen while Dick talked about
machinery and showed his own drawings, the older man began to believe
that Dick was well on the way to a Klondyke at home.
And when Paddy presently set up a happy home of his own, with Mrs.
Garth's youngest daughter at the head of it, Dick and his uncle lived
on at the old place together with Pat as an honoured member of the
family. And health and strength came back enough to make wage earning
possible again.
Step by step Dick advanced in the good opinion of masters and men, and
before he was out of his time one of his ideas in valves was patented
by the firm and he received a handsome present.
Lionhearted against wrong doing and ready to help in every good cause,
he won the respect even of those who disliked him, and at each
promotion earned the goodwill of the men. To-day he is
manager-in-chief, and there is a rumour that backed by the influence of
his old friend, Sir Dale Melville, he will rise to a junior partnership
at no distant date. And in every department of the works some evidence
of his inventive genius may be found. But he does not forget the
struggles and sorrows of the early days when he was only a
"'cumbrance," and in his own happy life there is always sympathy for
the poor and oppressed.
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