As for what he would do with Frank, after long pondering the situation, thinking how the clerk had acted concerning their increase in business – as if he alone had created their better times – Morris at length decided that Frank had not – as he had assumed when Karp told him the news – tried to trick him into believing that he was responsible for the store’s change for the better. The grocer supposed that the clerk, like himself, was probably ignorant of the true reason for their change of luck.