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For
some
days
thereafter
he
put
on
his
overcoat
regularly
in
the
morning
and
sallied
forth
.
On
these
ventures
he
first
consoled
himself
with
the
thought
that
with
the
seven
hundred
dollars
he
had
he
could
still
make
some
advantageous
arrangement
.
He
thought
about
going
to
some
brewery
,
which
,
as
he
knew
,
frequently
controlled
saloons
which
they
leased
,
and
get
them
to
help
him
.
Then
he
remembered
that
he
would
have
to
pay
out
several
hundred
any
way
for
fixtures
and
that
he
would
have
nothing
left
for
his
monthly
expenses
.
It
was
costing
him
nearly
eighty
dollars
a
month
to
live
.
“
No
,
”
he
said
,
in
his
sanest
moments
,
“
I
can
’
t
do
it
.
I
’
ll
get
something
else
and
save
up
.
”
This
getting
-
something
proposition
complicated
itself
the
moment
he
began
to
think
of
what
it
was
he
wanted
to
do
.
Manage
a
place
?
Where
should
he
get
such
a
position
?
The
papers
contained
no
requests
for
managers
.
Such
positions
,
he
knew
well
enough
,
were
either
secured
by
long
years
of
service
or
were
bought
with
a
half
or
third
interest
.
Into
a
place
important
enough
to
need
such
a
manager
he
had
not
money
enough
to
buy
.
Nevertheless
,
he
started
out
.
His
clothes
were
very
good
and
his
appearance
still
excellent
,
but
it
involved
the
trouble
of
deluding
.
People
,
looking
at
him
,
imagined
instantly
that
a
man
of
his
age
,
stout
and
well
dressed
,
must
be
well
off
.
He
appeared
a
comfortable
owner
of
something
,
a
man
from
whom
the
common
run
of
mortals
could
well
expect
gratuities
.
Being
now
forty
-
three
years
of
age
,
and
comfortably
built
,
walking
was
not
easy
.
He
had
not
been
used
to
exercise
for
many
years
.
His
legs
tired
,
his
shoulders
ached
,
and
his
feet
pained
him
at
the
close
of
the
day
,
even
when
he
took
street
cars
in
almost
every
direction
.
The
mere
getting
up
and
down
,
if
long
continued
,
produced
this
result
.
The
fact
that
people
took
him
to
be
better
off
than
he
was
,
he
well
understood
.
It
was
so
painfully
clear
to
him
that
it
retarded
his
search
.
Not
that
he
wished
to
be
less
well
-
appearing
,
but
that
he
was
ashamed
to
belie
his
appearance
by
incongruous
appeals
.
So
he
hesitated
,
wondering
what
to
do
.
He
thought
of
the
hotels
,
but
instantly
he
remembered
that
he
had
had
no
experience
as
a
clerk
,
and
,
what
was
more
important
,
no
acquaintances
or
friends
in
that
line
to
whom
he
could
go
.
He
did
know
some
hotel
owners
in
several
cities
,
including
New
York
,
but
they
knew
of
his
dealings
with
Fitzgerald
and
Moy
.
He
could
not
apply
to
them
.
He
thought
of
other
lines
suggested
by
large
buildings
or
businesses
which
he
knew
of
—
wholesale
groceries
,
hardware
,
insurance
concerns
,
and
the
like
—
but
he
had
had
no
experience
.
How
to
go
about
getting
anything
was
a
bitter
thought
.
Would
he
have
to
go
personally
and
ask
;
wait
outside
an
office
door
,
and
,
then
,
distinguished
and
affluent
looking
,
announce
that
he
was
looking
for
something
to
do
?
He
strained
painfully
at
the
thought
.
No
,
he
could
not
do
that
.
He
really
strolled
about
,
thinking
,
and
then
,
the
weather
being
cold
,
stepped
into
a
hotel
.
He
knew
hotels
well
enough
to
know
that
any
decent
individual
was
welcome
to
a
chair
in
the
lobby
.
This
was
in
the
Broadway
Central
,
which
was
then
one
of
the
most
important
hotels
in
the
city
.
Taking
a
chair
here
was
a
painful
thing
to
him
.
To
think
he
should
come
to
this
!
He
had
heard
loungers
about
hotels
called
chairwarmers
.
He
had
called
them
that
himself
in
his
day
.
But
here
he
was
,
despite
the
possibility
of
meeting
some
one
who
knew
him
,
shielding
himself
from
cold
and
the
weariness
of
the
streets
in
a
hotel
lobby
.
