"I am pleased to hear from my
old friend, Sir Archibald Brodie, and pleased to welcome any friend of
his to Canada."
So saying, with fine old-time courtesy, the banker rose to his splendid
height of six feet two, and shook his visitor warmly by the hand.
"Your name is--?"
"Cameron, Sir," said the young man.
"Yes, I see! Mr. Allan Cameron--um, um," with his eyes on the letter.
"Old and distinguished family--exactly so! Now, then, Mr. Cameron, I
hope we shall be able to do something for you, both for the sake of my
old friend, Sir Archibald, and, indeed, for your own sake," said the
banker, with a glance of approval at Cameron's upright form.
"Sit down, Sir! Sit down! Now, business first is my motto. What can I do
for you?"
"Well, first of all," said Cameron with a laugh, "I wish to make a
deposit. I have a draft of one hundred pounds here which I should like
to place in your care."
"Very well, Sir," said the banker, touching a button, "my young man will
attend to that."
"Now, then," when the business had been transacted, "what are your
plans, Mr. Cameron? Thirty-five years ago I came to Montreal a young
man, from Scotland, like yourself, and it was a lonely day for me when
I reached this city, the loneliest in my life, and so my heart warms
to the stranger from the old land.
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