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“Tried? Why, Roy, I’ve applied to every business man in Central City for a job. And they all tell me the same thing. They’re willing to hire me as an errand boy or to cut grass or weed onions, but not one of them wanted to give me a job worth anything.”

“Did they tell you so? Are you sure you didn’t imagine all this?”

“Absolutely. Why, old man Gulliver, who owns the big department store, told me flatly that he couldn’t afford to put me behind a counter because his customers would be offended by being waited upon by a boy. Nothing I could say would make him change his mind. He said the customers would judge by appearances.”

“Why, Willie, those men are crazy. There isn’t a keener boy in Central City than you. Great guns! Those fellows know how the Wireless Patrol captured the German dynamiters at the Elk City reservoir, and they know that you were one of the four boys that Captain Hardy picked from the entire patrol, to track those fellows to their lair. What do you suppose Captain Hardy did that for, anyway? Your size certainly was against you in that desperate business. And it was your brains alone that finally brought success to us. And everybody in Central City knows about our search here in New York during the war for the secret wireless. Great heavens! Does anybody suppose you would have been one of the four fellows selected for that job if you hadn’t had brains? Why, Willie, the Secret Service really owes it to you that they were able to find the secret wireless and nab the German spy who was operating it.”