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"First, these
letters to the box in the hall."
"Next?" Mickey queried as he came through the door.
"This package to the room of the Clerk in the City Hall, and bring back a
receipt bearing his signature."
Mickey saluted, laid the note inside the cover of a book, put it in the
middle of the package, and a second later his gay whistle receded down the
hall.
"'Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not
depart from it,'" Douglas quoted. "Mickey has been trained until he would
make a good trainer himself."
In one-half the time the trip had taken the messenger boys Douglas was
accustomed to employing, Mickey was back like the Gulf in the Forum,
demanding "more."
"See what you can do for these rooms, until the next errand is ready,"
suggested Douglas.
Mickey began gathering up the morning papers, straightening the rugs,
curtains and arranging the furniture.
"Hand this check to the janitor," said Douglas. "And Mickey, kindly ask
him if two dollars was what I agreed to pay him for my extras this week.


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