"I should recommend decidedly that you abandon the project entirely, and think no more about it. Then you can continue your work with the intention of returning to America whenever a favorable opportunity occurs." Benjamin accepted the advice of Mr. Denham, and reported to Wygate, to the no small disappointment of the latter; and both discarded the scheme and devoted themselves to honest labor. Benjamin heard of a place where he could get boarded at two shillings a week, when he was paying three shillings and sixpence a week in Duke Street. "I think I shall be under the necessity of changing," he said to the widow with whom he was boarding. "I want to save all the money I can, so as to return to America." "I shall be very sorry to have you leave, Mr. Franklin, if I can possibly arrange with you to remain." "I have no desire to leave, except to save a little in my expenses, that I may return to America sooner: that is all." "Rather than have you go, I will deduct two shillings a week from what you are paying me now." "That is, you propose to board me for one shilling and sixpence a week?" "Yes, that is it, and it is a bargain if you say so." "It is a bargain, then." And Benjamin continued to board there as long as he remained in London. Before this woman received him for a boarder in the first place, she sent to the printing house to inquire about his character. The report was so favorable that she took him to board. And now she had tried him, and was a greater admirer of his character than ever. It is one of the things to be said in Benjamin's favor, that, with all his faults, he always pleased and satisfied his employers and boarding-house keepers. Benjamin records the following interesting incident respecting his friend Denham, of whom we have spoken, and to whom we shall refer again: "I must record one trait of this good man's character. He had formerly been in business at Bristol, but failed, in debt to a number of people, compounded, and went to America. There, by a close application to business as a merchant, he acquired a plentiful fortune in a few years. Returning to England in the ship with me, he invited his old creditors to an entertainment, at which he thanked them for the easy composition they had favored him with, and, when they expected nothing but the treat, every man at the first remove found under his plate an order on a banker for the full amount of the unpaid remainder, with interest." It was this excellent man and friend, who finally approached Benjamin with a proposition. "How would you like to return to Philadelphia?" he said to Benjamin. "I should like nothing better, if the way was open for me to go." "I will open a way for you if you will go." "How?" "I am going myself. I intend to open a store of goods in Philadelphia, and will employ you in the business, if you will go." "I should like to go; but that will be a new business for me; perhaps I shall not succeed in it."