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`` And now let me tell you my story , my lad . It is a very short one . I had the same sort of a home , but no father -- none that I remember -- and no mother , they both died before my sister Felicia and I were grown up . At twelve I left school ; at fifteen I worked in a country store -- up at daylight and to bed at midnight , often . From twenty to twenty-five I was entry clerk in a hardware store ; then book-keeper ; then cashier in a wagon factory ; then clerk in a village bank -- then book-keeper again in my present bank , and there I have been ever since . My only advantages were a good constitution and the fact that I came of gentle people . Here we are both alike -- you at twenty -- how old ?