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He made no comment. "I don't want father to know this," Bonbright said. "If it can be kept out of the papers.... Father wouldn't understand. He'd feel I had disgraced the family." "Doggone the family," snapped Lightener. "Come on." Bonbright followed him out. "May I take him along, Lieutenant? I'll fix it with the judge if necessary.... And say, happen to recognize him?" "Never saw him before."
"Um!..." The doorman disappeared to return presently with the lieutenant. "What's this about Malcolm Lightener?" the officer asked. "I gave the man here a message for him," said Bonbright. "Is it on the level? You know Lightener?" "Yes," said Bonbright, impatiently. "Then what the devil did you stay here all night for? Why didn't you have him notified last night? Looks darn fishy to me."
I tell you it won't work." "Why?" Always Lightener had a WHY. He was constantly shooting it at folks, and it behooved them to have a convincing answer. The machinist had, and he set it forth at length and technically. Lightener listened. "You win," he said, when the man was done. That was all. More than once Ruth saw Hilda Lightener in the office.
If you can buy, you can do anything." "I I would rather stay out of the shops, Mr. Lightener. The men found out who I was...I'd like to stay there till they forget it." "You'll go where I put you. Men enough in the purchasing department. Got a tame anarchist there, I hear, and a Mormon, and a Hindu, and a single-taxer. All kinds. After hours. From whistle to whistle they BUY."
The thing had started at the first moment of his connection with Malcolm Lightener as an employee. He had reported promptly at seven o'clock, and found Lightener already in his office. It was Lightener's custom to come down and to go home later for breakfast. "Morning," said Lightener. "Where's your overalls?" "Overalls?" said Bonbright. "Didn't I tell you to bring some? You'll need 'em.
His hours of labor did not stop with the eighth nor with the tenth.... There were days when they began with daylight and continued almost to daylight again. Ruth had gone with Dulac.... She was hidden away. Not even Hilda Lightener knew where she was, but Hilda knew why she had gone.... There is an instinct in most animals and some humans which compels them to hide away when they suffer wounds.
The young man has er vanished, so to speak. He was seen last at your plant about five o'clock. In his automobile, Mr. Lightener. He was waiting for a young woman who works for you a Miss Frazer, I understand. Used to be his secretary. They drove away together, and he hasn't been seen since.... Mr. Foote has feared some sort of er understanding between them." "Huh!" grunted Lightener.
He said the Foote family ended with him became extinct. Well, I said the family just started with you, and that one generation of your kind was worth the whole six of his. And I hoped he lived to see it." "Somehow I can't feel very hard toward father, Mr. Lightener. Sometimes I'm sorry for him. To him it's as bad as if I'd been born with a hunchback.
In the afternoon Malcolm Lightener stood and watched Bonbright, though Bonbright did not see, for he was working in a red haze again, unconscious of everything but that insistent demand in his brain for "another.... Another.... Another...." Lightener watched, granite face expressionless, and then walked away. Bonbright did not hear the evening whistle.
Foote, with chilly courtesy, "that my family has been able to manage its business for several generations with some small success.... Our relations with our employees are our own concern, and we shall tolerate no interference. ... I have placed my son in complete charge of this situation, with confidence that he will handle it adequately." "Huh!" grunted Lightener, glancing at Bonbright.
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