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I think you have made something out of it after all, Wickes. And we must see about Robert." Thirty-one years at the desk! And to show for it a home for his wife and himself, a daughter in a home of her own, a son dead for his country, leaving behind him a wife and two lads to carry the name was it worth while?
"Yes, I can stick, I suppose, but, after all well, we'll have a go at it, anyway. But, like Tony, I feel like saying, 'Don't expect too much." "Only your best, Jack, that's all. Take three months, six months, a year, and get hold of the office end of the business. You have brains enough. I want a General Manager right now, Wickes is hardly up to it.
"Well, I may say to you, what Wickes knows and has known and has tried for three months to hide from me and from himself, Tony has made about as complete a mess of the organization under his care in the planing mill as can be imagined. The mill is strewn with the wreckage of unfulfilled orders. He has no sense of time value. To-morrow is as good as to-day, next week as this week.
"No, sir," said Johnny Wickes. "I beg your pardon, sir." "Well, you will remember that it was owing to the Highland kilt that you were picked out of the water, and that it was Highland whiskey put life into your blood again; you will remember that well. And if any strange lady should come here from England and ask you how you like the Highlands, you will not forget?" "No, sir."
"Wickes, you are an old fool and," he added in a voice that grew husky, "I am another and worse." "But, sir " began Wickes, in hurried tones. "Oh, cut it all out, Wickes," said Maitland impatiently. "You know I won't stand for that. But what can we do? He saved my boy's life " "Yes, sir, and he was with my Stephen at the last, and " The old man's voice suddenly broke.
Jack was unwilling to even suggest a criticism of method at so early a stage in his managerial career. "I want to know how you run things, Wickes, and at any time I shall be glad of assistance from you." The old bookkeeper hastened to give him almost tearful assurance of his desire to assist to the utmost of his power.
In the course of this investigation, he was surprised to discover that there was no detailed record of the actual production of each machine, nor, indeed, anything in the way of an accurate cost system in any department of the whole business. "How do you keep track of your men and their work, Wickes?" he inquired. "Oh!" said the old man, "the foremen know all about that, Mr. Jack."
For it would not beseem Americans, said Franklin, to fight against one who had earned the admiration of the whole world. The Reprisal did not return home before it had made its presence felt. For, having landed Franklin, Wickes cruised about the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel, capturing many British merchantmen, and taking them to France, where he sold them.
Charges in connection with the administration and with the Principal's management were laid before the Royal Institution by the Vice-Principal, who seems to have had the support of certain other College officers, including Professor Wickes, and the Tutor, Chapman.
"What are those boys at, I wonder?" she said. "There's that big lout of a Wigglesworth boy. He's up to no good, I bet you." "Oh, a kids' row of some kind or ither, a doot," said the youth. "Come along." "He's hurting someone," said Annette, starting down the lane. "What? I believe it's that poor child, Steve Wickes."
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