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lmost from his matriculation there had been constantly dinned into his ears the plaudits of his fellow students. Jimmy Torrance had been the one big outstanding feature of each succeed

nce. It was in a mental attitude that had become almost habitual with him, and which was superinduced by these influences, that Jimmy approached the new life that was opening before him. For a while he would p

d, Beatrice, Nebraska, and in the upper left-hand corner, in small type, appeare

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got your diploma is beyond me-in my day you would have got the sack. Well, son, I am not surprised nor disappointed-it is what I expected.

me disinheriting you, but instead I am going to urge you to come home and run in debt here where the cost of liv

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tcomings gradually became less opaque, until finally he saw himself as his father must see him. He had come to college for the purpose of fitting himself to succeed in some particular way in

egy and tactics as any man in America; that as a boxer he occupied a position in the forefront of amateur

mand in the business world. Jimmy spent a very blue and unhappy hour, and then slowly his natural optimism reasserted itse

should feel half as badly as I do. But every line of that letter breathes disappointment in me; and yet, God bless him, he tells me to come home and spend his money there. Not on your li

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to me than the latter. Not, however, that I spurn the check, which it was just li

e home again. If I fail I'll come home anyway, and then neither one of us will have any doubt but what you will have to support me for the rest of my life. However, I don't intend to fail, and one of these days I will

probably from Chicago, as I have always had an id

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tering a cab, directed that he be driven to a small hotel; "for," he soliloquized, "I might as well start economizing at once, as i

ad spent many hilarious and expensive hours, but now he had come upon the serious business of life, and there moved within

lient characteristics, and these conformed to his physical proportions, for physically, mentally and morally Jimmy Torrance was big; not that he was noticeably taller than other men or his features more than ordinarily attractive, but there was so

him in Chicago. He remembered distinctly of having read somewhere that the growing need of big business concerns was competent executive material-that there were f

bs, and that a satisfactory percentage of them appeared to be big jobs. There were so many, however, that appealed to him as excellent possibilities that he saw it would be impossible to apply for each and every one; and then

which most appealed to him; in other words, he would choose from the cream of those who desired the services of such a man as himself

ad, he reviewed it carefully, compared it with others that he saw upon the printed page, made a few changes, rewrote it, and the

ident or business manager, or that even the advertising manager would necessarily have to pass upon his copy, but there was within him a certain sensation that at that instant something was transpiring that

t was a great moment for Jimmy Torrance. He realized that it was probably the greatest moment of his life-that here Jimmy Torrance ceased to be, and James Torrance, Jr., Esq., b

Jimmy; "never batted an eye," and paying for

ffice. I understand that there are three million people here in Chicago. Out of that three million it is safe to assume that one million will read my

educing it still further to almost an absurdity, I will figure that only ten per cent of those reply to my advertisement. In other words, at the lowest possible estimate I shou

o make so many busy men waste their time answering the ad when