If I do not, the gang will set
up a howl in to-morrow morning's paper, and they will start an
investigation of their own. Did you get anything from him this morning
Leslie? Not for four days? And he's a week past the time he thought he
would be back? I see! Leslie, what shall I do? In my morning's mail there
is a letter from the men whose records I have been over, giving me this
ultimatum: 'begin on Winton's office immediately, or we will.'
"Tell them to go ahead? But Leslie! Yes I know, but Leslie----Yes! You are
ordering me to tell them that I propose to conduct the search in his
department as I did theirs, and if they will not await his return from
this business trip, they are perfectly free to go ahead----You are _sure_
that is the thing you want said? But Leslie----Yes, I know, but Leslie it
is _disobeying_ him, and it's barely possible there might be a traitor
there; better men than he have been betrayed by their employees. I admit
I'm all in. I wish you would come and bring your last letter from him.
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