of the first part to receive as a
further consideration a commission of one-third of the fees of the
party of the second part procured therefrom.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands and seals the
day and year above named.

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Armed with these insinuating documents I procured a fresh roll of
one hundred one-dollar bills and set forth to interview all whose
acquaintance I had made in the course of my brief residence in the
city. My argument ran thus: Almost anybody would be willing to
receive a dollar every month in return for a service that would
cost him nothing. With an outlay of one hundred dollars I could
have a hundred persons virtually in my employ trying to get me
business. After the first month I could discontinue with those
who seemed likely to prove unremunerative. Almost any case would
return in fees as much as my original disbursement. On the whole
it seemed a pretty safe investment and the formal-looking contract
would tend to increase the sense of obligation upon the contracting
party of the first part. Nor did my forecast of the probabilities
prove at all wide of the mark. Practically every one to whom I
put the proposition readily accepted my dollar and signed the
agreement, and at the end of a week my one hundred dollars had been
distributed among all the cab drivers, conductors, waiters, elevator
men, clerks, bartenders, actors, hall boys, and storekeepers that
I knew or with whom I could scrape an acquaintance. None of them
expected to have any business of their own and all welcomed with
delight the idea of profiting by the misfortunes of their friends.

I had often lost or won at a single sitting at cards a much larger
sum than the one I was now risking in what seemed an excellent
business proposition, so that the money involved caused me no
uneasiness. Besides, I had fifty dollars left in my pocket.
Meantime I spent my evening in my office reading Blackstone and
such text-books as I cared to borrow from the well-equipped library
of my employers.

Business came, however, with unexpected promptitude. At the end
of the first week I had received calls from two actors who desired
to sue their managers for damages for breach of contract, five
waiters who wished to bring actions for wages due, and actress who
wanted a separation