He is a sort of a banker there, and has written me to recommend some one to take the place of his manager or cashier whom he is sending away.

It's rather a queer move, I think, but then," said the general with a smile, "Harum is a queer customer in some ways of his own.

There is his letter.

Read it for yourself." The letter stated that Mr.Harum had had some trouble with his cashier and wished to replace him, and that he would prefer some one from out of the village who wouldn't know every man, woman, and child in the whole region, and "blab everything right and left." "I should want," wrote Mr.
Harum, "to have the young man know something about bookkeeping and so on, but I should not insist upon his having been through a trainer's hands.

In fact, I would rather break him in myself, and if he's willing and sound and no vice, I can get him into shape.