The stockbroker's clerk

Hall Pycroft is a reliable and conscientious clerk. However, his last employer, Coxon & Woddhouse, was ruined, and after a few months, the money he could saved ran out. Luck came back when he could get a vacancy at Mawson & Williams great stockbroking firm. Actually, he was lucky enough to receive another offer, too generous to be declined. So generous is the offer, that Mr Pycroft soon become suspicious...