"Tell Phillips when he calls that I'm going, and he'll find me at Harcourt's."
CHAPTER XXIII.
JUDGMENTS.
NLY a few of the clerks had assembled as yet at the great store. It was still early morning, and the business of the day had not commenced when young McPherson rushed in, breathless, and in his haste nearly overturned a clerk near the door; then he stopped, panting as he questioned:
"Is Mr. Mallery in?"
"Yes, sir; he's always in. It's my opinion he sleeps in the safe," added his informant, in discontented under tone. Theodore's promptness was sometimes a great inconvenience to the sleepy clerks.