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`` Affairs of greater importance , sir , occupied my time . '' `` Oh , yes ; our janitor tells us that you have been communing with yourself over a glass of beer in the saloon across the way for the last hour . -- Gentlemen , I received a letter from Mr. Elmendorf yesterday morning , which I will read : '' ` SIR , -- Having been informed that Mr. Warren Starkey , a clerk in your employ , has been discharged because of his having been accused of revealing to the press certain facts relative to the circumstances under which Lieutenant Forrest was twice ordered away from Chicago , this is to inform you that unless Mr. Starkey is immediately reinstated I shall consider it my duty , as an accredited correspondent of numerous newspapers of high repute , to publish all the facts in the case as well known to me , and to demand the dismissal of Lieutenant Forrest . That you may know I speak by the card , I purpose calling at your office at four P.M. to-morrow , at which time , if you see fit , the gentleman and those he may claim as his friends can hear the grounds on which I base my demand . Let the laws which oppress the poor and friendless now apply to the proud and powerful . '' ` MAX ELMENDORF . ' `` Now , Mr. Elmendorf , Mr. Starkey has been discharged , and has not been reinstated .