“There’s a job open in my office, young man,” he went on, turning to Allan. “It’s yours if you want it. It’s not such a very good job, for it pays only fifty dollars a month, but you’ll learn more about railroading there in a month than you can ever do on section, and you’ll be in line for promotion, and you’ll get promoted when you merit it. What do you say?” What could Allan say, with a heart too full for utterance? He reached out his hands blindly, and the other, understanding, clasped them in his strong, steady ones. * * * * * And that was how it came about that Allan got the place in the offices which he had longed for, under the eye of the best train-master in the West, where, as he had promised, there was more railroading to be learned in a month than in a lifetime of section work. He became a part of the brain which ruled and directed the whole wonderful system. He came to know what the instruments ticking madly away on every table were saying. He proved himself worthy of the trust reposed in him, and on two critical occasions, at least, he displayed a nerve and quickness of judgment which caused the general manager to ask the train-master: “Who is this fellow named West you’ve got down there in your office, Schofield? He seems a good one.” “He _is_ a good one,” Mr. Schofield had responded, earnestly. “You’ll hear from him again.” How the prophecy came true and what adventures befell Allan in his new position will be told in “The Young Train-despatcher”; but, whatever his successes, I doubt if he ever knew happier days than those he spent with Reddy and Jack Welsh on Section Twenty-one. THE END. BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE LITTLE COLONEL BOOKS (Trade Mark.) By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON Each, 1 vol., large 12mo, cloth decorative, per vol. $1.50 The Little Colonel Stories. (Trade Mark.) Illustrated. Being three “Little Colonel” stories in the Cosy Corner Series, “The Little Colonel,” “Two Little Knights of Kentucky,” and “The Giant Scissors,” put into a single volume. The Little Colonel’s House Party. (Trade Mark.) Illustrated by Louis Meynell. The Little Colonel’s Holidays. (Trade Mark.) Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. The Little Colonel’s Hero. (Trade Mark.) Illustrated by E. B. Barry. The Little Colonel at Boarding School. (Trade Mark.) Illustrated by E. B. Barry. The Little Colonel in Arizona. (Trade Mark.) Illustrated by E. B. Barry. The Little Colonel’s Christmas Vacation. (Trade Mark.) Illustrated by E. B. Barry. Since the time of “Little Women,” no juvenile heroine has been better beloved of her child readers than Mrs. Johnston’s “Little Colonel.”