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CHAPTER IV - JIMMY HUNTS A JOB.
Once again Jimmy walked out onto Madison Street, and, turning to his right,
dropped into a continuous vaudeville show in an attempt to coax his spirits back
to somewhere near their normal high-water mark. Upon the next day he again
haunted the newspaper office without reward, and again upon the third day with
similar results. To say that Jimmy was dumfounded would be but a futile
description of his mental state. It was simply beyond him to conceive that in one
of the largest cities in the world, the center of a thriving district of fifty million
souls, there was no business man with sufficient acumen to realize how badly he
needed James Torrance, Jr., to conduct his business for him successfully.
With the close of the fourth day, and no reply, Jimmy was thoroughly
exasperated. The kindly clerk, who by this time had taken a personal interest in
this steadiest of customers, suggested that Jimmy try applying for positions
advertised in the Help Wanted column, and this he decided to do.
There were only two concerns advertising for general managers in the issue which
Jimmy scanned; one ad called for an experienced executive to assume the general
management of an old established sash, door and blind factory; the other insisted
upon a man with mail-order experience to take charge of the mail-order
department of a large department store.
Neither of these were precisely what Jimmy had hoped for, his preference really
being for the general management of an automobile manufactory or possibly
something in the airplane line. Sash, door and blind sounded extremely prosaic
and uninteresting to Mr. Torrance. The mail-order proposition, while possibly
more interesting, struck him as being too trifling and unimportant.
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However," he thought, "it will do no harm to have a talk with these people, and
possibly I might even consider giving one of them a trial."
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