The outcome was that the two men offered to take charge of Harper & Brothers for a few months, and then decide whether they wished to make the association a permanent one.

One thing was immediately apparent; Messrs.
Doubleday and McClure, able as they were, would need the help of the best talent available in the work that lay ahead.

The first man to whom they turned was Page, who presently left Boston and took up his business abode at Franklin Square.

The rumble of the elevated road was somewhat distracting after the four quiet years in Park Street, but the new daily routine was not lacking in interest.

The Harper experiment, however, did not end as Mr.Morgan had hoped.