pay for my increased tasks, caused by the increase of your business,

is it not just that I should now ask for a still further advance in

view of the fact that your business has doubled since the date of

our last contract?

"It has been necessary for me to acquaint myself with the signatures

and business customs and qualifications of twice the former number

of your customers, and my liability to error has also become greater

in like ratio. But I have committed no errors, which argues that I

have kept up an equal strain of care. This has made demands upon my

brain and my bodily strength, which I think should be requited for.