ed in the first.

Yet this was all so unnecessary. Mr. Pendleton had in him everything
Farnsworth wanted. If the latter could have heard him talk as she had
heard him talk, he would have known this. Farnsworth ought to send him
out of the office--let him get among men where he could talk. And that
would come only if Mr. Pendleton could hold on here long enough. Then
he _must_ hold on. He must cut out his late hours and return to his
old schedule. She must get hold of him and tell him. But how?

The solution came the next morning. She decided that if she had any
spare time during the day she would write him what she had to say.
When she saw him drift in from lunch at twenty minutes past one, she
took the time without further ado. She snatched a sheet of office
paper, rolled it into the machine, snapped the carriage into position,
and began.

MR. DONALD PENDLETON,
Care Carter, Rand & Seagraves,
New York, N.Y.

_Dear Sir_:--

Of course it is none of my business whether you get fired or not;
but, even if it isn't, I like to see a man have fair warning.
Farnsworth doesn't think that way. He gives a man all the rope he
wants and lets him hang himself. That is just what he's doing with
you. I had a tip straight from the inside the other day that if
you keep on as you have for the last six weeks you will last here
just about another month. That isn't a guess, either; it's right
from headquarters.

For all I know, this is what you want; but if it is, I'd rather
resign on my own account than be asked to resign. It looks better,
and helps you with the next job. Most men downtown have a
prejudice against a man who has been fired.

You needn't ask me where I got my information, because I won't
tell you. I've no business to tell you this much. What you want to
remember is that Farnsworth knows every time you get in from lunch
twenty minutes late, as you did to-day; and he knows when you get
in late in the morning, as you have eleven times now; and he knows
when you take an hour and a half for a half-hour errand, as you
have seven times; and he knows when you're in here half-dead, as
you've been all the time; and he knows what you don't know about
what you ought to know. And no one has to tell him, either. He
gets it by instinct.

So you needn't say no one warned you, and please don't expect me
to tell you anything more, because I don't know anything more.