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Shall I have her call on you?" "If you will, please," replied Compton As Jimmy left the office Compton rang for Bince, and when the latter came, told him of his plan to employ a firm of accountants to renovate their entire system of bookkeeping. "Is that one of Torrance's suggestions?" asked Bince. "Yes, the idea is his," replied Compton, "and I think it is a good one."
"They don't any of us know when we are going to be canned to give Compton more profit, and men are not going to stand for that long." "Then," said Bince, "I take it that he really hasn't interfered with you much?" "Oh, he's always around asking a lot of fool questions," said Krovac. "Last week he asked every man in the place what his name was and what wages he was getting.
"I tell you again," said Bince, "once and for all, that you don't see the pay-roll nor anything else connected with my office, and you will oblige me by not bothering me any longer. As I told you when you first came in, I am very busy." Jimmy turned and left the room.
"What a policeman don't know about you will never hurt you," was one way that the Lizard put it. When Jimmy appeared in the shop the next morning he noted casually that Krovac had a cut upon his chin, but he did not give the matter a second thought. Bince had arrived late. His first question, as he entered the small outer office where Mr.
Bince greeted him almost effusively, and Mr. Compton seemed glad to see him out again. That evening Harold Bince met Murray at Feinheimer's, and still later the Lizard received word that Murray wanted to see him. "Everything's ready," the boss explained to the Lizard. "The whole thing's framed for to-morrow night. The watchman was discharged to-day.
Jimmy also thought of Bince and the pay-roll, but he was still afraid to broach the subject. Suddenly an inspiration came to him. "Yes," he said, "I believe your accounting system could be improved it will take me months to get around to it, as my work is primarily in the shop, at first, at least.
Bince thought there was going to be a strike at his plant and he wanted me to fix it up for him," replied Murray. "You know the defendant, James Torrance?" "Yes." "Didn't he knock you down once for insulting a girl?" Murray flushed, but was compelled to admit the truth of the allegation. "You haven't got much use for him, have you?" continued the attorney. "No, I haven't," replied Murray.
"You wouldn't do that, Harry?" he almost whimpered. "For God's sake, don't do that, and I'll try and see what I can do for you." "Well," replied the other, "I don't want to be nasty, but I need some money badly." "Give me a little longer," begged Bince, "and I'll see what I can do." Jimmy Torrance sat a long time in thought after the Lizard left. "God!" he muttered.
Elizabeth Compton had noticed this fact, too, and commented upon it one evening when Bince was at her home. "What's the matter with you, Harold?" she asked. "You look as though you are on the verge of nervous prostration." "I've had enough to make any man nervous," retorted Bince irritably.
This is my work, and my office is not being investigated by any efficiency expert or any one else." "I don't recall that I made any such agreement," said Jimmy. "I must insist on seeing that pay-roll." Bince turned white with suppressed anger, and then suddenly slamming his pen on the desk, he wheeled around toward the other.
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