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Joyce inquired: "Is Mr. Williams in?" "Mr. Williams has gone to Chicago," was the polite reply. "Chicago, eh? When will he be back?" "We expect him back day after to-morrow; possibly to-morrow afternoon." "Humph!" Mr. Joyce rubbed his chin. "Is Mr. Mann about?" "Yes, sir; just gone up to the stock-room." "Tell him I'd like to see him for a few minutes." "Yes, sir. Mr. Joyce, I believe."
"If only some old soldier would turn up, so that you could get your father's pension," went on Mattie, "that would be better than a reward." "You're right," replied Richard. "Even if we only got a thousand dollars it would help along wonderfully at home." Monday morning found the two hard at work in the stock-room. About ten o'clock Mr. Mann came up, and beckoned to Richard to come to one corner.
The last of these original buildings, No. 4, was used for many years in Edison's ore-concentrating experiments, and also for rough-and-ready operations of other kinds, such as furnace work and the like. At the present writing it is used as a general stock-room.
"If you come down in my neighborhood drop in and see me." "Thank you, I will with pleasure," was Richard's reply. "We will go right upstairs to the stock-room," said Mr. Mann, after Mr. Joyce had departed. "We have a large pile of pamphlets and books which the clerk we discharged left all mixed up. I was just assisting the stock-clerk in making out a new division of the department."
Mann went below; and there were no more interruptions for that day. But trouble was in the air, and on the following day the climax came. Richard was alone in the stock-room, Frank having just gone below on business. There was a clatter on the stairs, and turning to see what was the matter Richard confronted Earle Norris.
"I wanted to know, that was all." "We have no keys of anything up in the stock-room," continued the boy. "I know that. You can go to work," Mr. Mann snapped. And Richard passed out. "Either that boy is perfectly honest or else he is the most accomplished actor I ever saw," thought the merchant when left alone. "Well, what's the trouble?" asked Frank, when Richard reached the stock-room.
"I guess I won't change, at least for the present," replied the boy. When he returned to the stock-room he related to Frank what Norris had said about keeping too quiet. "I don't agree with him," said the stock-clerk. "I don't know what he means by having lots of sport and all that, but I never believed in being out late nights. It isn't right, and besides it doesn't pay.
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