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"I chust come, and vos putting on mine odder coat ven I heard an explosion vich knock me mine feets off, and I rund out like I vos killed, and der whole place was on fire in two seconds already." "Was Larry killed?" asked Frank. Larry was the engineer and porter around the place. "No, he vos out, getting a pite to eat," replied the shipping-clerk.
Richard felt that the present would have been a good time to tell what he knew about the shipping-clerk, but remembering his half promise to the latter he remained silent. "You may go," said Mr. Mann, briefly; "but stop. Have you any keys belonging to this place in your possession?" "Keys? No, sir." "Oh, all right." "But what made you ask that?" began Richard, considerably perplexed.
"It isn't just the money you want, Hortense? Are you sure?" "Of course I'd like the money. That extra coming in would mean books I'm crazy about reading, and so is Henry and theaters and lots of things we can't afford now. But that isn't all. Henry don't want to be a shipping-clerk all his life. He's crazy about mechanics and that kind of stuff. But the books that he needs cost a lot.
"It is not the attraction," said Richard flushing, "though she, like her mother, treats me nicely," he added stoutly, and with a certain amount of loyalty. "Oh, well, it's all right," put in the shipping-clerk hastily. "I don't want you to change if you're satisfied. Only if you get tired of being quiet let me know. I tell you, there's lots of fun to be had if you only know how to get it."
Take my advice, even if I am younger than you, and steer clear of the Laurel Club." "I'll think of it," replied the shipping-clerk, turning away. "I guess I've shut the young fool up," he muttered to himself. "He might have placed me in a decided fix if he had told all he knew." Of course Richard reported the interview to Frank.
I suppose he thought as long as he got you there the rest would follow easy enough. I'm glad you didn't give in. If you had, he or his companions would have won every cent you had, and perhaps have placed you in debt to them." "What would you do? Tell on him?" "Williams & Mann ought to know what kind of a fellow their shipping-clerk is," replied Frank.
They'll keep their gum and a looking-glass in the upper right-hand drawer of their typewriter desks, and the old man will call them down eleventy times a day, and they'll marry the shipping-clerk first time he sneaks out from behind a box. But you got sense, and somehow gee! I never know how to express things glad I'm taking this English composition stuff oh, you just seem to understand a guy.
It was Mrs. Lossing that first lent me books; and Harry Lossing, who is head of the firm now, got Ebenezer into the works. Ebenezer is shipping-clerk with a good salary and stock in the concern; and Ralph is there, learning the trade. I went to the business-college and learned book-keeping, and afterward I learned typewriting and shorthand. I have been working for the firm for fourteen years.
He had counted so on the situation that of a shipping-clerk in a dry- goods store promised him because of a letter that he carried from Amos Cobb's friend. But at the last moment the former clerk, who had been laid off because of sickness, had been taken back, and so the weary search for work must begin again. And yet with everything against him Oliver had no thought of giving up the struggle.
He had not been ten minutes in his room before the shipping-clerk knocked at the door and interrupted him, still absorbed in his own anxious thoughts. "What is it?" he asked, irritably. "Duplicate Bills of Lading, sir," answered the clerk, placing the documents on his ma ster's table. Found! There was the security on his writing-desk, staring him in the face!
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