He must have been out drinking and carousing all night long--the odor of the room from the fumes of strong liquor was almost unbearable; it was blue with smoke, too, and Lester Armstrong always led us to believe that he had never smoked a cigar in his life; and, worst of all, from a gentleman he has suddenly turned into a libertine, if I am any judge of features.
"I cannot begin to account for the great change in him; it mystifies me quite as much as it did the store detectives and Mr.Conway, the cashier.

It is all terribly wrong--somehow--somewhere.

If it were not that I have been here so many years I would tender Mr.Armstrong my resignation.

I am not at all satisfied--and yet, yesterday, when Mr.
Armstrong called me into his private office and we had that long talk about the business matters of the house, I felt that all would go well; to-day he is like a different man--appears to have forgotten completely all of the instructions he was so particular to give me.

Yesterday he said: 'We will go over the books and papers very carefully, you and I, and see that every department is run as carefully and well as heretofore.