As Clancy got out of the car in the garage, he turned to find Judge Pembroke at his elbow.
“I’ve just discharged Hibbard,” said he, “and I want another driver. I’ll give you seventy-five a month to work for me, Clancy. Will you take the place?”
Clancy, for a moment, was “stumped.”
“I’m sorry, sir,” he answered, “but I’ve just hired out to Mr. Rockwell.”
“You’re not half as sorry as I am,” said the judge, turning away. “If you don’t like it here, come and see me.”
Rockwell, just getting out of the car, chuckled, under his breath.
CHAPTER V.
HIBBARD SHOWS HIS TEETH.
It was hard for Clancy to understand Rockwell. At first, he had no place open for Clancy at all; after he saw the thousand-dollar note, he suddenly discovered that he could put him on the pay roll, providing he could do his work and keep his own counsel; and finally, when Clancy declined the position if he must turn his back an his principles, Rockwell “took him on,” anyway.
It did not occur to Clancy that Rockwell might have a design in these shifty tactics, and that the design underwent changes as Clancy developed his aims and intentions.