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of five thousand a year salary
besides contingents in the fire
depart. & also automobile
so the loss is a severe one.

What he will do next we do not
know He has wired the Co. twice
on advice of friends. but expects
little good will come of it, they
seemed disposed to do what the
C.U. did with father — let
this manager do as he pleased
no matter how[underlined] dishonorably.

Both father & Mr Fores advised
Jack a year or more ago to go East
to the home office himself &