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CHAPTER XIV - IN AGAIN--OUT AGAIN.
Jimmy Torrance was out of a job a week this time, and once more he was
indebted to the Lizard for a position, the latter knowing a politician who was
heavily interested in a dairy company, with the result that Jimmy presently found
himself driving a milk-wagon. Jimmy's route was on the north side, which he
regretted, as it was in the district where a number of the friends of his former life
resided. His delivery schedule, however, and the fact that his point of contact
with the homes of his customers was at the back door relieved him of any
considerable apprehension of being discovered by an acquaintance.
His letters home were infrequent, for he found that his powers of invention were
being rapidly depleted. It was difficult to write glowing accounts of the business
success he was upon the point of achieving on the strength of any of the positions
he so far had held, and doubly so during the far greater period that he had been
jobless and hungry. But he had not been able to bring himself to the point of
admitting to his family his long weeks of consistent and unrelieved failure.
Recently he had abandoned his futile attempts to obtain positions through the
medium of the Help Wanted columns.
"It is no use," he thought. "There must be something inherently wrong with me
that in a city full of jobs I am unable to land anything without some sort of a pull
and then only work that any unskilled laborer could perform."
The truth of the matter was that Jimmy Torrance was slowly approaching that
mental condition that is aptly described by the phrase, "losing your grip," one of
the symptoms of which was the fact that he was almost contented with his
present job.
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