The will is very clear upon that point.

You don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office during that time.' "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' said I.
"'No excuse will avail,' said Mr.Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness nor business nor anything else.

There you must stay, or you lose your billet.' "'And the work ?' "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first volume of it in that press.

You must find your own ink, pens, and blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair.

Will you be ready to-morrow ?' "'Certainly,' I answered.
"'Then, good-bye, Mr.Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you once more on the important position which you have been fortunate enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased at my own good fortune.
"Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its object might be I could not imagine.