4/21 They put him on the books at first as assistant bookkeeper, vice Mr.Thomas Trixler, dismissed, and in two weeks George said: "Why don't we make Cowperwood head bookkeeper? He won't be a bookkeeper long, though. I want to see if he can't handle some of these transfers for me after a bit." The books of Messrs. Waterman & Co., though fairly complicated, were child's play to Frank. He went through them with an ease and rapidity which surprised his erstwhile superior, Mr.Sampson. |