"I knew I'd catch her wrong yet," he seemed to be saying to himself. "As soon as she's made a bit of money, she wants everybody to have it. It's the hen and the egg all over again—they've simply got to cackle."
Thus the gleam in Uncle Stanley's eye. Looking up at the end of her reading, Mary caught it. "How he hates women!" she thought. "Still, in a way, you can't wonder at it…. If it hadn't been for women and the things they can do he would have had the factory long ago." Aloud she said, "What do you think of it?"
"I think it's a piece of foolishness, myself," said Uncle Stanley promptly. "But I know you are going to do it, if you've made up your mind to do it."
"I'm not so sure it's foolish," said the judge. "It seems to me it's going to bring us a lot of new business."
"Got all we can handle now, haven't we?"
"Well, we can expand! It wouldn't be the first time in Spencer & Son's history that the factory has been doubled, and, by Jingo, I believe Mary's going to do it, too!"
Mary said nothing, but a few mornings later when the advertisement appeared in the leading newspapers throughout the country, she made a remark which showed that her co-directors had failed to see at least two of the birds at which she was throwing her stone…. She had the newspapers brought to her room that morning, and was soon reading the following quarter page announcement:
THE FRUITS OF HER LABOUR
For the past six months, Spencer bearings have been made exclusively by women.
The first result of this is a finer degree of accuracy than had ever been attained before.