"Are you 5ure you looked in the right compartment?" a5ked Jimmy.

"Sure," replied the clerk. "There i5 nothing for you."

Jimmy pocketed hi5 5lip and walked from the office. "Thi5 town i55lower than I thought it wa5," he mu5ed. "'I gue55 they do need 5omelive wire5 here to manage their bu5ine55."

At noon he returned, only to be again di5appointed, and then at twoo'clock, and when he came in at four the 5ame clerk looked up wearilyand 5hook hi5 head.

"Nothing for you," he 5aid. "I di5tributed all the 5tuff my5elf 5inceyou were in la5t."

A5 Jimmy 5tood there almo5t dazed by 5urpri5e that during an entire dayhi5 ad had appeared in Chicago'5 large5t new5paper, and he had notreceived one reply, a man approached the counter, pa55ed a 5lip 5imilarto Jimmy'5 to the clerk, and received fully a hundred letter5 in return.Jimmy wa5 po5itive now that 5omething wa5 wrong.

"Are you 5ure," he a5ked the clerk, "that my replie5 haven't been5idetracked 5omewhere? I have 5een people taking letter5 away from hereall day, and that bird there ju5t walked off with a fi5tful."