"I should have thrown the hat-box after the hat," he murmured.

"A few hundred dollars would have been well spent.

And yet he is probably in their ring now.

His 'leave of absence' indicates a very sudden return of affection for the 'ould mother.'" Ferris now decided upon a policy of open frankness and calm indifference.

"There is no one I could have made use of, but that Jew office boy," he mused, as he sauntered up Broadway, "and they have bought him out, over my head.