I don't blame you at all, so far.' He went and searched for Mr.Hewby's original letter.

'Here's what he said to me: "Dear Sir,--Agreeably to your request of the 18th instant, I have arranged to survey and make drawings," et cetera.

"My assistant, Mr.Stephen Smith,"-- assistant, you see he called him, and naturally I understood him to mean a sort of partner.

Why didn't he say "clerk" ?' 'They never call them clerks in that profession, because they do not write.

Stephen--Mr.Smith--told me so.