upon to go out with the manager for a drink and presented him with twenty suggestions for new and circular letters he the methods of the and two days later he was at work as though he had never in his life been farther from the company than � dear � i am back in new york feeling very well hope this finds you the same i have been wanting to write to you for quite a while now but there has not been much news of any kind so i have not written to you but now i am back working for the company i hope you are having a good time in paris it must be a veiy pretty city st i have often wished to be there perhaps some day i go i several here have been reading quite a few books since i got back now i shall get on better with my reading you told me so many things about books so on i do appreciate it in closing i am yours very sincerely william there was nothing else he could say but there a number of things he could think as i crouched by the window overlooking west street whose dull hue had not changed during the c tunes while he had been england her sm he remembered � and he cried oh i want to see her i much her gallant dash through the and again the cry at last he cursed himself why don t you do that d count for her and not sit around t her like a he worked on his plan to bring the south into line � the company s line again and again he sprang up from the writing table in his hot room when the presence of came and stood by his chair but he worked l presence he is our mr the company had not been able to get from the south the business which the company deserved if right and justice were to prevail on the steamer from england mr had conceived the idea that a ink well with the and union draped in graceful cast iron would make an admirable present with which to draw the attention of the southern trade the ink well was to be followed by a series of letters sent on the slightest provocation on order or re order hoping the various of the were good and the season important all to a welcome to the on the southern route he drew up his letters he his ink well he got up the courage to talk with the office manager to forget love and the beloved men have ascended in and conquered african tribes to forget love a new busy much absorbed mr very much ours into mr s office down his papers on the desk and demanded here s that plan about the south interested that i was telling you about say honest i d like awful much to try it on i d just have to have part time of one well you know our are pretty well crowded but you can leave the outline with me i ll look it over said mr that same afternoon the manager o k d the plan to o k is an office for saying gloomily well i don t suppose it d hurt to try it anyway but for the love of be careful and let me see any letters you send out so mr dictated a letter to each of their southern merchants sending him a ink well and inquiring about the crops he had a an efficient young woman who wrote down his halting words as though they were examples of bad english she wanted to show her friends and waited for the next word with cynical amusement i s h wanted t v with our mr h use l by growled bill the show her i m running this i ll show her she s got other think coming but he dictated so busily and was so hot to get results that he forgot the girl s air of he watched the southern results in the papers he seized on every on the southern route as he came in and inquired about the and politics of the merchants in his district he even forgot to worry about his next rise in salary and found it much to rush back for an important letter after quick lunch than to watch the time and make sure that he secured every minute of his lunch hour when october came � october of the vagabond with the leaves out on the and sixth avenue moving picture palaces cool again and gay � mr stayed late under the lights making card cross of the southern merchants their and prejudices and as he worked stopping now and then to slap the desk and by i l em � em he rarely thought of till he was out on the again proud of having worked so late that his eyes in fact his chief troubles these days came when wouldn t let him put through an idea their first battle was over mr s thi letters personally for the letters the office manager were as much ours as was mr and should signed by the firm after some difficulty mr persuaded him that one of the best ways to handle a personal letter was to make it personal they nearly cursed each other before mr was allowed to use his own judgment it s not at all certain that mr should have yielded what s the use of a manager if his use judgment next battle mr lost he had demanded a he is our mr monthly holiday for his mr pointed out that she d merely be the worse off for a holiday that it d make her discontented that it was a kindness to her to keep her mind occupied 