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Indeed, Starratt had always prided himself at his ability to keep Brauer at arm's length. A subtle change had occurred. Was it possible that a borrowed five-dollar bill could so reshape a relationship? Well, he would pay him back once he received his monthly salary, and get over with the obligation.
So perhaps it's just as well if people don't suspect " "Peter, how extremely like you not to care what people think as long as we're not engaged, and not to want them to suspect it when we are!" Susan could say, smiling above the deep hurt in her heart. And Peter laughed cheerfully again. Then Mr. Brauer came in, and Susan went back to her desk, brain and heart in a whirl.
"Brauer asked me if I would like to go into the big office, but I don't believe I could do the work," Susan said. "Yes; I'm going into the main office, too," Thorny stated. "Don't you be afraid, Susan. It's as easy as pie." "Mr. Brauer said I could try it," Miss Sherman shyly contributed. But no other girl had been thus complimented.
"Can't you see, Brauer, that the principle is the same?" "Principle! Oh, shoot!... We're out to make money, not to reform business methods." Starratt made no further reply, but Brauer's attitude rankled. He began to wish that he hadn't allowed Brauer to go in on his venture. 'But it had taken money ... more than he had imagined.
And Brauer, rather frightened, yet garrulous, would add, for want of anything better: "An honest partner until he began hitting the booze." There would be his wife, too. "I did all I could. Stood by him to the last ... even when I discovered that there was another woman." The authorities at Fairview would doubtless add their note to the general chorus: "An exceptional patient.
"I think he's going into business for himself, or something," Starratt heard the chief stenographer say in a stage whisper to her assistant, as he passed. And at his desk he found Brauer waiting to waylay him with a bid for lunch, his little ferret eyes attempting to confirm the general gossip flying about.
It turned out that he had borrowed about $500 from his partner and that 50 per cent of the commissions on the Brauer business came to a scant $125. Well, his profits on the Hilmer insurance would be in the neighborhood of $1,900 under the new rate. To-morrow he would be in possession of this sum. It was too easy!
Starratt's eyes widened. Where did Helen get this ruthless philosophy? Had it always lain dormant in her, or was this business life already putting a ragged edge upon her finer perceptions? But he made no answer. He had never admitted to Helen that Brauer had insisted upon drawing up a hard-and-fast partnership agreement, and taking his note for half of the money advanced in the bargain.
Brauer will have to give it to you, inside of two months. She'll find," said Miss Thornton, with a grim tightening of the lips, "that precious few mistakes get by ME! I'll make that girl's life a burden, you trust me! And meantime you work up on that line, Sue, and be ready for it!" Susan did not answer.
"They had a directors' meeting on Saturday," Thorny said, later, "and if you ask me my frank opinion, I think Henry Brauer is at the bottom of all this. What do you know about his having been at that meeting on Saturday, and his going to have the office right next to J. G.'s isn't that the extension of the limit? He's as good as in the firm now."
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