he was bored with a life of leisure. Each listener said that he didn't blame him and agreed that it must be tiresome.
"Got anything that I could do over at your place? I'll go nuts if I don't get something to do." Hubert laughed as he spoke. He didn't want a fellow member to think that he really needed work.
Nobody had an opening for him.
"Well, if you hear of anything," Hubert would suggest carelessly to each. They would nod and hurry away.
He stayed at the club till after ten o'clock. He went back to Lillian then. It had been a good day. He had informed many men that he was open for offers and they in turn would inform their friends. Hubert figured that thus some three dozen men would be told that he was ready to return to the business world. He decided not to go forth again for a few days. His might look like a desperately needy case if he haunted the club or the offices of his friends. Besides, those men who had been told of his desire to once more assume responsibilities would be telling people about him, and that was enough.
While Hubert was concealing his need for work, the first of the month came around and with it the dapper rent collector.
Hubert paid him and announced that the apartment would be vacant by the next first.
The young gentleman smiled and reminded Hubert of his lease.
"Never mind that bunk," stormed Hubert. "I'll not
