Mr. Crampton chuckled--drew a letter from a heap before him, andtearing off the signature, armed over the document to his nephew.It contained the following paragraphs:--

"Hawksby has sounded Scully: we can have him any day we want him.He talks somewhat huge at present, and says he would not take anythingunder a. . . This is absurd. He has a Yorkshire nephew coming upto town, and wants a place for him. There is one vacant in the Tape0ffice, he says: have you not a promise of it?"