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Updated: June 15, 2025
At least she might have put the thing off until pay day, when money was more plentiful. How did others manage? Starratt asked himself. Because there was a small minority in the office who received their full month's salary without a break during the entire year. Take young Brauer, for instance. He got a little over a hundred a month and yet he never seemed short.
I heard some ugly gossip yesterday, and I wanted to find out if it had any justification. It seems Kendrick is after us. He's going to try and get us on a rebating charge. I saw six of your people ... and I'm reasonably sure that two out of that six have been promised a rake-off... Do you call that fair to me?" "That's a lie!" Brauer broke out, too emphatically. "I doubt it!"
Brauer's gaze swept from Starratt to Helen and back again. "How did you land it, then?" Helen stood up, thrusting a pencil into her hair. "I landed it, Mr. Brauer," she said, sweetly, tossing her husband a commiserating smile. Brauer's thin lips parted unpleasantly. "I told you at the start, Starratt, that a good stenographer would work wonders." Fred forced a sickly laugh.
Me and the Baxters can do pretty much what we like! I'll fire Brauer to-morrow if he " "You shut up, Susan!" Miss Thornton, her rising resentment pricked like a bubble, would laugh amiably, and the subject of the bill would be dismissed with a general chuckle.
No more drudgery over bills, no more mornings spent in icy, wet shoes, and afternoons heavy with headache. Susan was almost too excited to thank Mr. Brauer for his compliments and regrets. Parting with Thorny was harder; Susan and she had been through many a hard hour together, had shared a thousand likes and dislikes, had loved and quarreled and been reconciled.
He ended by telling her the reason ... there was no other way out of the situation. "Oh," she drawled, when he had finished, "so getting rid of Brauer was too easy, after all!" She made no other comment, but he read her scornful glance. "Any fool would have guessed that!" was what it implied.
A few days later Brauer came into the office with an order to place a workmen's compensation policy. It covered the entire force of a canning concern, and the premium was based upon a large pay roll. "I've had to split the commission with them," Brauer announced, defiantly. "That's legitimate enough with this sort of business, isn't it?" Starratt nodded. "It's done, but I'm not keen for it.
He could feel Brauer trembling in his grasp. A rising cruelty overwhelmed him. He flung Brauer from him with a gesture of contempt. "Are we going to eat?" he asked, coldly. "Yes ... whatever you say." Fred nodded and together the two drifted down Montgomery Street.
"He wants to punish you ... even the score some way... After I saw him yesterday I went out and talked to Hilmer... We outlined a plan that Brauer is willing to accept. Hilmer has a pull, you know ... and if the scheme goes through there'll be no trial, no notoriety, nothing disagreeable... We'll make it plain to the authorities that you gave out this check when you were drunk.
The first man he called on produced a receipt from Brauer for the premium paid on the very day the policy was issued. The second man protested that he had paid Brauer only the day before. The third man stated brusquely that he had placed his business through Brauer and he was the man he intended to settle with.
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