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N.B. -- Suppose Morton were to find this out ! _ January 20th . _ -- I have had my first experience in my new character . I had been told to be ready every afternoon by five o'clock for orders . Yesterday , about six in the afternoon , I received a message from the Globe , directing me to go to a house in East Seventy-fourth Street , near Fifth Avenue , at nine o'clock that evening , and submit myself to the orders of Mr. Q. K. Slater . It was a consoling thought that I had never heard of Mr. Q. K. Slater , and that East Seventy-fourth Street was an unknown region to me . Punctually at nine that evening I found myself in the large parlor of a house in Seventy-fourth Street , brightly lighted , and filled with people .