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THE IRISH ORPHAN IN AMERICA. 93
I make you acquainted with Mr. Saunders, who is to be
your tutor for some time to come". Turning back, he
said to Weimar : " I shall go immediately about that
note : I believe the man's name is Moreton".
" Ay, do, Talbot, and be sure you tell him dat de matter
vill be put at once in de lawyer's hands if he not pay tomorrow
forenoon". Talbot nodded, and the old German
bent again over his books, as wrapped up in their contents
apparently as though no interruption had taken
place.
" Now, Willy", said Mr. Talbot, as they proceeded by
a long, dark passage to find the head clerk in the retail
store, " you see I have said nothing of the priest, for
Mr. Weimar cannot bear to hear them mentioned—though
I myself am a Catholic, as he well knows— neither have
I said anything of your going to night-school, or of
where you are to board, but all that is easily arranged.
We rent a house close by here, for the convenience of
boarding our young men ; and when the stores are closed
this evening I shall introduce you to Mrs. Malcolm, the
old house-keeper. But here is Mr. Saunders". He then
presented the brothers to the worthy Scotchman, who had
the chief management in the concern, and having seen
them duly set to work, he said with a smile, " Good bye,
then, for the present ; I hope to hear a good account of
my proteges from Mr. Saunders"; and he hastened away.
The day passed away tediously enough to Peter and
Willy, for there were strange faces all around them, and
even the accents that fell upon their ears were strange,
for it chanced that they were the only Irish boys in the
establishment. Late in the afternoon Mr. Weimar entered
the storeroom where Willy was engaged in burnishing up
some things under the superintendence of Saunders.