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Accuracy was a sine qua non of successful office work, and accuracy is either a thing of natural gift or is the result of long and painful discipline, and neither by nature nor by discipline had Jack come into the possession of this prime qualification for a successful office man. His ledger wellnigh brought tears to old Wickes' eyes and added a heavy load to his day's work.
William Wickes started a mission school, which afterward grew into the present Cumberland Street Church. In 1866 occurred that wonderful work of grace that resulted in the addition of 320 souls to our membership, one hundred of them heads of families.
"And are you very tired?" said Janet Macleod, in that soft voice of hers that all children loved. "Yes," said the child. "Kott bless me!" cried Hamish, "I did not know that!" and therewith the old man caught up Johnny Wickes as if he had been a bit of ribbon, and flung him on to his shoulder, and marched off to Castle Dare.
Conyngham, Wickes, with others only less famous, all active and gallant men as ever trod a deck, took the neighboring waters as their chosen scene of action, and very soon were stirring up a commotion such as Englishmen had never experienced before.
Whipple was never caught until 1778, when with his ship the Providence he tried to relieve Charleston, in South Carolina, which was at that time besieged by the British. Then he was not hanged, but kept prisoner until the end of the war. Lambert Wickes, captain of the Reprisal, was another gallant naval officer.
In July he was still there, and the Governors again told him that if he was not out at the end of two days they would remove him, "using no more force than might be necessary for that purpose." He went; and the controversy ended. Professor Wickes then became Vice-Principal, but he retired two years afterwards. Chapman, the Tutor, became Lecturer in Classics, but he retired a few weeks later.
I am very much afraid it will ruin us." "Ruin us? Rot. Don't ever say that word again. We will possibly have a jolly good row. Someone will be hurt and perhaps all of us, more or less, but I don't mean to be beaten, if I know myself," he added, with the smile on his face that his hockey team loved to see before a match. "Now, Wickes," continued Jack, "get that idea of failure out of your mind.
"I remember, Wickes, I remember. And that's another reason We must find another way out." "I have been thinking, sir," said the bookkeeper timidly, "if you had a younger man in my place " "You would go out, eh? I believe on my soul you would. You you old fool. But," said Maitland, reaching his hand across the desk, "I don't go back on old friends that way."
Gathering up the sheets with fingers that trembled helplessly, Wickes crept hurriedly out through the door, leaving a man behind him furiously, helplessly struggling in the relentless grip of his conscience, lashed with a sense of his own injustice.
"Are you ready, my dear?" said Tony, smiling pleasantly at the girl. "All right, proceed. 'Dear Mr. Maitland: Got that? 'Conscious of my unfitness for the position of foreman in " "Hush, hush, Tony," implored Mr. Wickes. Tony waved him aside. "What have you got, eh?" At that point the door opened and Grant Maitland stepped into the office.