Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories · The Stock Broker's Clerk - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

but if I have lost my crib and got nothing in exchange, I shall feel what a soft Johnny I have been.

I am not very good at telling a story, Dr. Watson, but it is like this with me.

I used to have a billet at Coxon Woodhouses of Draper's Gardens.'

I'd been with them five years, and old Coxon gave me a ripping good testimonial when the smash came, but of course we clerks were all turned adrift, the twenty-seven of us.

I tried here and tried there, but there were lots of other chaps on the same lay as meself, and it was a perfect frost for a long time.

I'd been taking three pounds a week at Coxon's, and I'd saved about seventy of them, but I soon worked my way through that and out the other end.'

I was fairly at the end of my tether at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to.

I had worn up my boots, paddling up off his stairs, and I seemed just as far from getting a billet as ever.

At last I saw vacancy at Mawson and Williams, the great stockbroking firm in Lombard Street.

I dare say E.C.

is not much in your line, but I can tell you that this is about the richest house in London.'

The advertisement was to be answered by letter only.

I sent in my testimonial, an application, but without the least hope of getting in.

Back came an answer by return, saying that if I would appear next Monday, I might take over my new duties at once, provided that my appearance was satisfactory.

No one knows how these things are worked.

Some people say that the manager just plunges his hand into the heap and takes the first that comes.

Anyhow, it was my innings that time, and I don't have a wish to feel better pleased.

The screw was a pound a week rise, and the duty's just about the same as at Coxon's.

And now I come to the queer part of the business.

I was in Diggings, out Amstead Way, 17 Potters Terrace.

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