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Peebleby laughed. "You've been very decent about it, too. I hope to see something of you in the future. What?" "You'll see my smoke, that's all." "You're not going back right away?" "To-morrow; I've booked my passage and cabled the girl to meet me in New York." "My word! A girl! She'll be glad to hear of your success." "Oh, I've told her already. You see, I knew I'd won."
Fortunately for Mitchell, Englishmen are not without a sense of humor. The announcement that this young man had come all the way from Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., to bid on the Krugersdorpf work struck Mr. Peebleby as amusing.
Peebleby inquired, "By the way, who helped you figure those prints?" "Nobody." "You did that alone, since Monday morning?" The speaker was incredulous. "I did. I haven't slept much. I'm pretty tired." There was a new note in Mr. Peebleby's voice when he said: "Jove! I've treated you badly, Mr. Mitchell, but I wonder if you're too tired to tell my engineers what you told me just now?
Who are these over-dressed gentlemen I see promenading back and forth?" "Why they're callers, customers, representatives of the firms we do business with, sir." "Is this Guy Fawkes Day?" "No, sir." "Are these men here on business? Are any of them salesmen, for instance?" "Yes, sir; some of them. Certainly, sir." "To see Mr. Peebleby about the new construction work?" "No doubt."
Peebleby?" "Ever since they were adopted." Mr. Peebleby was visibly annoyed at this interruption to his morning's work. "Well, I can give you a lot of information about them." The Director General raised his brows haughtily. "Ah! Suggestions, amendments, improvements, no doubt." "Exactly." "In all my experience I never sent out a blueprint which some youthful salesman could not improve upon.
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