My heart was dead when the admiral told me he had already engaged a secretary.

But your note brought me the position." "But the newspapers ?" "None of them will employ me." "In New York, with your credentials ?" "Even so." "I don't quite understand." "It would take too long to explain." "I can give you some letters." "Thank you.

It would be useless.

Secretly and subterraneously, I have had the bottom knocked out from under my feet.

Why, God knows! But no more of that.