He's extremely busy," said Smith.

"I told him that you wanted your old job back.

And he instructed me to tell you he had been put to the trouble of breaking in a girl to take your place.

She now does the work you used to have--very satisfactorily, Mr.Manton thinks, and at less pay.

So, of course, a change is impossible." "I see," returned Lane, slowly, as he rose to go.