HO ANGEL PAVEMENT

than Mr. Dersingham himself had learned in three years,
One of Miss Poppy Sellers' first tasks had been to copy
out replies to the letters answering Twigg and Dersing*
ham's advertisement in The Times and the Daily Tele-
graph. This was for another man, to take Goath's place,
though he would have to spend much of his time farther
afield. He had to be as unlike Goath as possible in char-
acter, but not unlike him in experience. In short, he
had to be "young, keen, energetic," and "with some con-
nection in furnishing trade and knowledge of veneers
and inlays." And the change brought about by Mr.
Golspie was such that Twigg and Dersingham were able
to declare that for the right man there was "a good
opening."

It has been said that the modern English do not like
work, It cannot be said that they clo not look for it and
ask for it. The day after this advertisement appeared,
the postal heavens opened and a hurricane of letters fell
upon Twigg and Dersingham. Into Angel Pavement
all that day there poured a bewildering stream of replies.
It seemed as if street after street, whole suburbs, had
been waiting for this particular opening. There were,
it appeared, dozens of men with vast connections in the
furnishing trade and the most thorough, the most inti-
mate knowledge of veneers and inlays, and most of these
men, though they had apparently refused scores of offers
recently, were only too willing to assist Messrs/ Twigg
and Dersingham, Then there were men who had not
perhaps exactly a connection but had been for years, so
to speak, on the fringe of the furnishing trade, men who
had sold pianos, who had given removing estimates, who
had done a little valuing, who knew something about
upholstering. Then there were older men, ex-officers