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Compton left the office earlier than usual, complaining of a headache, and the next morning his daughter telephoned that he was ill and would not come to the office that day. During the morning as Bince was walking through the shop he stopped to talk with Krovac. Pete Krovac was a rat-faced little foreigner, looked upon among the men as a trouble-maker.
"No," said the other, "I don't." "Neither do I," said Bince. "I know his plans even better than you. This shop has short hours and good pay, but if we don't get rid of him it will have the longest hours and lowest pay of any shop in the city." "Well?" questioned Krovac. "I think," said Bince, "that there ought to be some way to prevent this man doing any further harm here."
"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.
"Well, you be over there to-night about ten thirty and I'll introduce you to a guy who can pull off this whole thing, and you and I won't have to be mixed up in it at all." "To-night at ten thirty," said Bince. "At Feinheimer's," said Krovac. As the workman passed through the little outer office Edith Hudson glanced up at him.
So I hides there and I saw this man Bince come along and drop an envelope beside Krovac's machine, and after he left I comes out as Krovac picks it up, and I seen him take some money out of it." "How much money?" asked the attorney. "There was fifty dollars there. He counted it in front of me." "Did he say what it was for?"
"Will you tell the jury, please, of any occurrence that you witnessed there that afternoon out of the ordinary?" "I was working at my machine," said the witness, "when Pete Krovac comes to me and asks me to hide behind a big drill-press and watch what the assistant general manager done when he comes through the shop again.
Wrote it all down in a little book. I suppose he is planning on cutting pay." Bince's eyes narrowed. "He got that information from every man in the shop?" he asked. "Yes," replied Krovac. Bince was very pale. He stood in silence for some minutes, apparently studying the man before him. At last he spoke. "Krovac," he said, "you don't like this man Torrance, do you?"
"Nothin' doin'," said Krovac with an angry snarl. "It might be worth another fifty to you to know that I wasn't going to tell old man Compton." "You damn scoundrel!" exclaimed Bince. "Don't go callin' me names," admonished Krovac. "A fellow that hires another to croak a man for him for one hundred bucks ain't got no license to call nobody names."
"I am getting the best kind of cooperation from the men in the shop, practically without exception," replied Jimmy, "although there is one fellow, a straw boss named Krovac, who does not seem to take as kindly to the changes I have made as the others, but he really doesn't amount to anything as an obstacle."
"He hasn't got my job yet," growled the other, "but he's letting out hard-working men with families without any reason. The first thing you know you'll have a strike on your hands." "I haven't heard any one else complaining," said Bince. "You will, though," replied Krovac.
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