On their return to New York, Jim plunged into business. It was settled that they were to start on their tour immediately after the wedding, going first to the Bermudas, and from there to wherever their fancy dictated. And as the duration of their stay was as uncertain as was the direction in which they were to travel, Jim was anxious to place his business in such shape as to require as little attention from him in the near future as possible. This required considerable labor, for he had a great many different matters to arrange. First, he wanted a good, reliable agent, and for all the city seemed flooded with men out of employment, Jim found the proper man very difficult to find, for he not only required an honest, capable business man, whom he could trust to collect his rents, and have general supervision over his estate during his absence, but it was also necessary that the agent should be a kindly, sympathetic man, who would judiciously care for some two score of poor people in whom Jim was interested. First he tried advertising. He drew up a short advertisement, stating in plain terms just what he wanted, and for the next few days he was besieged at the house by innumerable applicants. There were applicants of all ages and styles; applicants who were highly educated, and applicants who could neither read nor write; applicants who were timid and humbly besought a trial; and applicants who were “cheeky,” and demanded the position as their right, and who generally abused Jim when they did not get it. There was the chronic applicant who was always applying for a position and never obtaining one, and the young applicant making his first attempt at self-support. It was strange that out of all these applicants Jim could not find one to suit him. But his ideas were well set, and he had made up his mind as to just what he wanted. So he sat patiently under this infliction that he had brought upon himself as long as he could stand it. Then he fled, and the servant was instructed to inform all other applicants that the position was filled, Jim considering that this small lie was justifiable under the circumstances. But instead of being discouraged, Jim was only the more determined to obtain his man. He thought he would try the intelligence offices. So he started early in the morning, in order to visit as many of them as possible unless he found his man. Very little of this, however, convinced him that the class of help he wanted did not patronize these institutions. So he very soon gave them up. “I guess I must be mighty hard to suit,” thought Jim, as, hungry but undaunted, he started home for dinner. “But I am going to get him somehow, if he is in New York.”