Crossword-Solution: CROSSET 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Already the serious issues of the morning were but a memory; he burst in upon Lorelei like a gale, shouting: "I'm chalk-boy at Crosset & Meyers, so you can give Bergman your notice to-night." "What's the salary?" "It isn't a salary; it's a humiliation--twenty-five a week is the total insult." "Why, Bob! That won't keep two and the family--" "Damn the family!" He quieted himself with an effort.

Crosset was a young man; more than once he and Bob had scandalized Broadway; some of their exploits were epic.

Now he shrugged carelessly, saying: "Oh, you made good, I guess; but we can't take a chance with you." "I suppose you're afraid I'll steal some of your chalk." Crosset grinned, then deponed with extreme gravity: "Bob, you drink.

Married and happy, eh? Well, I'm sorry I can't help you--" "You can." "How?" "Lend me five hundred." "Certainly!" Crosset lunged at his desk, scribbled a line to the cashier, and handed it to Bob, then, in response to a call from the customers' room, dashed away with a hearty farewell.

But a half-hour at a jewelry shop convinced him that nothing suitable to so splendid a creature as his wife could be purchased for a paltry five hundred dollars, and he was upon the point of returning to Crosset with a request to double the loan when his common sense asserted itself.