Show business sagacity employer gruffly Well sir air if 11 you can give me any good reason why I 1 should raise your salary til do it clerk Cler liI I have wol worked ked here bera faithfully withful Ith ful giving you tho the I 1 very Y best ive had bad la in m me and I 1 think doing a guiod deal to build up the he business employer wore more aruny yes I 1 you have at all 11 eyerts lt e ta you think you have hut but a young you man in your position fO Billon is in always mare or less inclined to got get an exaggerated idea of his importance there are a dozen other clerks in this establishment who have labored just as aa zealously and some of them longer than you yott have but they have not asked for increased UY pay although none of them la Is getting a cent more than you are I 1 clerk then too your wife camo came in hero here yesterday and got to searching around in your desk dek employer excitedly well did she find anything any thing T did aho dim dig cover tho algeon hailo in which I 1 keep my private correspondence correspond nce T why in thunder did I 1 go out and leave my desk deak open anent by george I 1 thought somebody Bome body had been around here and aad tho the desk deak was shut abut when I 1 got back I 1 remember now she acted suspicious of me last night too well well well what clerk pardon me I 1 was going to explain just as an she had found the pigeonhole pigeon hole referred to I 1 told her that there was waa it lady out in front v who ho wished to too see her of th thera ere but the place was waa full of women and while she was wag inquiring around I 1 pulled down the top of the desk and sneaked out of course I 1 dont know anything nt at all im just an ordinary hand here willing to do my beet beat and never prying into other peoples affairs when ho he opened hla his envelope enve lopo on saturday lie he found that the raise had been granted |