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So far as he knew he had attended faithfully to all the duties required of him. As he entered the office, he saw that Mr. Goodnow had a visitor, whose face looked familiar to him. He recalled it immediately as the face of the English gentleman who had visited the Lodging House the day previous with his employer. "So I find you at work?" he said, offering his hand with a smile.
"Will you take me back also, Mr. Goodnow?" asked Philip Carton. The merchant hesitated. "No, Mr. Carton," said Rodney. "I will look out for you. I will send you to Montana with a letter to my partner. You can do better there than here." Tears came into the eyes of the ex-clerk. "Thank you," he said gratefully. "I should prefer it.
He won't see you." Rodney was provoked. "Do you decide who is to see him?" he asked. "You're impudent, young feller." "Am I? Perhaps you will allow Mr. Goodnow to see me, as long as he told me to call here this morning." "That's a different thing," returned the other in a different tone. "If you're sure about that you can go to the office in the back part of the room."
I hope you will investigate, and if you can prove that I took any of the missing articles I want no consideration. I shall expect you to have me arrested, and, if convicted, punished." "These are brave words, Ropes," said Mr. Goodnow coldly, "but they are only words. The parcel found in your room affords strong ground for suspicion that you are responsible for at least a part of the thefts.
I left the boarding school where I was being educated, and came to the city to try to make a living." "But surely your guardian would try to provide for you?" "He is no longer in the city." "Who was he?" asked Otis Goodnow. "Mr. Benjamin Fielding." "Is it possible? Why, I lost three thousand dollars by him. He has treated you shamefully." "It was not intentional, I am sure," said Rodney.
"I expected you to deny it," said the merchant coldly. "If this cloak were the only one that had been taken I would drop the matter. But this is by no means the case. Mr. Redwood, can you give any idea of the extent to which we have been robbed?" "So far as I can estimate we have lost a dozen cloaks and about half a dozen dress patterns." "This is a serious loss, Ropes," said Mr. Goodnow.
But in the last three bills bought of Goodnow you have sent back goods, and it is not possible that he made such mistakes. Then you deduct from bills, though made out at prices agreed upon." "The last cambrics were billed half a cent too high," said Solomon. "Then you shouldn't have ordered them. The time to make prices is when you are buying.
We do not know how Americans will like this kind of interpretation of their history; but at least they will not fail to note what dismal results it hastened on in China. With the experimental Eighteenth Century French Republic; with the old Spanish Colonies of Central and South America; and above all with Mexico, Dr. Goodnow deals in the same vein.
Goodnow is not the consolidation of a new government which had been recognized by all the Treaty Powers only two years previously but the question of succession to the supreme office in the land, a point which had already been fully provided for in the one chapter of the Permanent Constitution which had been legally passed prior to the Coup d'état of the 4th November, 1913.
We do not know how Americans will like this kind of interpretation of their history; but at least they will not fail to note what dismal results it hastened on in China. With the experimental Eighteenth Century French Republic; with the old Spanish Colonies of Central and South America; and above all with Mexico, Dr. Goodnow deals in the same vein.
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