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Jimmy pocketed his slip and walked from the office . `` This town is slower than I thought it was , '' he mused . '' ` I guess they do need some live wires here to manage their business . '' At noon he returned , only to be again disappointed , and then at two o'clock , and when he came in at four the same clerk looked up wearily and shook his head . `` Nothing for you , '' he said . `` I distributed all the stuff myself since you were in last . '' As Jimmy stood there almost dazed by surprise that during an entire day his ad had appeared in Chicago 's largest newspaper , and he had not received one reply , a man approached the counter , passed a slip similar to Jimmy 's to the clerk , and received fully a hundred letters in return .