“Yes,” smiled Felix, complacently. “Didn’t Chester look glum when you bounced him?”
“I don’t know and I don’t care. I have no further use for him. He’s too fresh!”
CHAPTER XXIV.
INTRODUCES MR. SHARPLEIGH, THE DETECTIVE.
Chester was not so much disturbed by his discharge, so far as it related to his own welfare, as by the thought that Mr. Fairchild’s interests were threatened. He felt that his absent employer ought to be notified at once.
Accordingly he went to the Fifth Avenue Hotel and telegraphed to Chicago:
“I am discharged. Felix Gordon is in my place. Will write.”
A few hours later Chester received the following message at his lodgings.
“Your telegram received. Will write you instructions. Fairchild.”