Sixty Years Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XXIV SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS A MONTH GEORGE CARLYLE, being called to London on urgent business, left Singapore by the P. and O. mail after appointing John Finlay to succeed him as one of the managing partners of Brownlow and Co., and incidentally as one of the members of the North- wood committee. It so happened that as young Northwood was leaving the office of the Singapore Free Press, he met Finlay, who greeted him very kindly. Finlay had always looked on Johnnie as one of his most promising juniors, and now asked him point-blank if he would like once more to take service with Brownlow and Co. Johnnie was so delighted at the idea that Finlay had some difficulty in containing him. The matter would first have to be referred to the head office in London by letter, but the period of waiting could be shortened by means of a telegraphic cipher, such as " Woodleigh," for instance, which would mean that Mr. Jasper McKenzie would allow the thrice unlucky John Dillon Northwood to re-enter the service of Messrs. Brownlow and Co. Mrs. Northwood, who had returned from Ayer Manis, was delighted with this bit of good news. If the great firm of Brownlow and Co. chose to reinstate her son, who could cast so much as a pebble at him ! Johnnie himself felt that it would rehabilitate him in the opinion of Singapore society and effectually close the mouths of his traducers. He ardently desired this appointment, andwas overjoyed when a month later he got a note from Finlay advising him that the London office had cabled the word " Woodleigh." Finlay requested Johnnie to call upon him at his earliest convenience. It was with infinite satisfaction that Johnnie North- wood re-entered the once familiar office of Brownlow and Co., and made his way to the desk so long occupied by George C...Read More