eye glasses slipped off his poor nose he begged in sudden tones of old friendship why you can t be thinking of leaving us why we expect to make a big man of you i was joking about firing you you ought to know that after the talk we had at s the other night you can t be m thinking of leaving there s no end of here said the dogged soldier of dreams why that hurt and astonished victim of ingratitude mr i ll leave the middle of june that s plenty of j notice mr at five that evening mr dashed up to the i brass man at his station before the crying you come from ireland don t you now what would you oh no i m a from no honest straight tell me i ve got a chance to travel what d think of that ain t it and i m going right away what i wanted to ask you was what s the best place in ireland to see o course i was born there from his pocket a pencil and a worn envelope mr added the new point of interest to a list from bay to he up town looking at the stars he shouted as he saw the of a big up at the end of street he stopped to chuckle over a of the at the window of a greek j s stand stars � steamer � temples all these were his he owned them now he was free lee sat waiting for him in the till ten thirty while he was with at the grand central then she went to bed and though he knew it not that prince of wealthy j mr had entirely lost the heart and hand of f v he stood before the manager s god like desk on june � sadly good by mr leaving to day i wish i e walks with miss i wish i could tell you you know � about how much appreciate the manager moved a wire basket of copies of letters from the left side of his desk to the right staring at them thoughtfully his in a pile before his ink well glanced at the point of an pencil with a manner of startled examination tapped his desk with his then raised his eyes he studied mr smiled put on the look he used when inviting him out for a drink mr was essentially an honest fellow by the job a well satisfied victim with the imagination clean gone out of him so that he took follow up letters and the of office boys as the only serious things in the world he was strong alive not at all a bad chap merely efficient well i suppose there s no use of rubbing it in course you know what i think about the whole thing it strikes me you re a fool to leave a good job but after all that s your business not ours we like you and when you get tired of being just a bum why come back we ll always try to have a job open for you meanwhile i hope you ll have a mighty good time old man where you going when d start out why first i m going to just kind of wander round generally lots of things i d like to do i think i ll get away real soon now � thank you awfully mr for keeping a place open for me course i ly won t need it but i sure do appreciate it say i don t believe you re so crazy about leaving us after all now that the cards are all out straight now are yes sir it does make me feel a blue � been here so long but it be awful good to get out at sea i know i d like to go myself � i suppose you fellows think i wouldn t care to go around like you do and never have to worry about how the firm s going to break even but well i i these k h aft our mr v good by old man and don t forget us drop me a line now and then and let me know how you re getting along oh say if you happen to see any that look good let us hear about them but drop me a line anyway we ll always be glad to hear from you well good by and good luck sure and drop me a line in the corner which had been his home for eight years mr could not devise any new and yet more improved arrangement of the wire baskets and and desk so he cleaned a pen blew some gray dust from under his iron ink well standard and decided that his desk was in order reflecting he d been there a long time now he could never come back to it no matter how much he wanted to how good the manager had been to him he hadn t appreciated how he started down the corridor on a round of to the boys too bad he hadn t never got better acquainted with them but it was too late now anyway they were such fine jolly sports they d never miss a stupid like him just then he met them in the corridor all of them except by the and carpenter who was bearing a box of handkerchiefs with a large green and c rim son pa per nor upon this suspicious occasion we have the pleasure of showing by this small token of our esteem our of your in the investigation of r of the trust and say old man joking aside we re mighty sorry you re going and � � well we d like to give you something to show we re � � mighty sorry 