With his hand on the money all the time, he walked about the room, thinking what he should do next. He wanted a place. He did not think, because he had money, that he could live without work: he wanted to earn his own living, and put the money into a savings bank where it would pay interest; and then he should have something to lean upon if he got out of occupation, or should be sick, so that he could not support himself. While he was thinking of the matter, he happened to glance at one of the newspapers that lay on the table. He saw the word “Wants.” He had seen the same thing in the Midhampton paper; and he knew that people advertised when they wanted help, as men and women did when they wanted places. He wondered that he had not thought of this before; for perhaps this paper contained a score of places which he might obtain. He took the newspaper, and sat down in the corner of the room to study the column of “Wants.” He found plenty of places that he thought he should like. “Wanted, a young man to drive an express-wagon: good recommendations required.” He could drive an express-wagon, for he had done it a great many times; but, unfortunately, he had no recommendations, good or bad. This was the difficulty which Caleb Klucker had pointed out to him. He looked at a great many other advertisements; but all of them required testimonials, as Caleb had called them. He was beginning to take a very hopeless view of the situation, when his attention was attracted to an advertisement in another column: “Wanted, a young man with one hundred dollars, to act as cashier in a restaurant. Good security and good interest given for the money.” Wade realized at that moment that he was “a young man with one hundred dollars.” He did not comprehend what the duties of a “cashier in a restaurant” were, though he concluded that the principal one must be to take the payment for meals. He had been to several such places in Bridgeport and in New York; and he had noticed that a man was employed to take the money. He had been to school enough to learn his arithmetic pretty well, and he thought he could make change as fast as any of the men he had seen doing it. Wade fixed in his mind the street and number where applicants for this desirable situation were required to call; and then he started to find the place. He inquired of a porter at the door where the street was. It was a long walk to the place, and he feared that the situation might be taken up before he could apply for it. It was nearly two hours before he reached his destination. It was a small office up one flight of stairs, in an old wooden building. It was called “an employment office.”