He looked me straight in the face and told me about the typhoid and all of it, explained that it wasn't the business of the firm to let houses likely to interest me, and wound up by giving me your name and address and recommending me to come to you." "You surprise me very much indeed," Mr.Miller admitted.

"Under the circumstances, it is scarcely to be wondered at that he is out of employment.

Old Waddington wouldn't have much use for a man like that." "I shouldn't be surprised," Mr.Lynn remarked thoughtfully, "if it was through my affair that he got the sack.

Couldn't you do something for him, Mr.Miller--to oblige me, eh ?" "If he calls again," Mr.Miller promised, "I will do my best." But Burton did not call again.

He made various efforts to obtain a situation in other directions, without the slightest result.