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Excerpt: ...Carter made a note of the address. 'You still wish to go on with this affair?' 'Certainly.' 'Come and have some lunch with me, then, and afterwards we'll go to the City Road and talk things over on the spot.' The vivacious young man was not quite so genial as of wont, but he evidently strove to show that the renewal of their relations as employer and clerk would make no difference in the friendly intercourse which had since been established; the invitation to lunch evidently had this purpose. 'I suppose, ' said Carter, when they were seated in a restaurant, 'you wouldn't object to anything better, if a chance turned up?' 'I should take it, to be sure.' 'But you don't want a job that would occupy all your time? You're going on with writing, of course?' 'Not for the present, I think.' 'Then you would like me to keep a look-out? I haven't anything in view