Robert Holton was leaning back in his chair.
“Pretty dull, isn’t it?” commented Dick.
“The army was a lot duller.”
“I thought that was one thing that it wasn’t ... dull.”
Robert Holton chuckled. “This is a lot better.”
“Don’t you miss moving around?”
He paused before he replied and Kuppelton wondered what the truth really was; however, Robert Holton only said, “No, no, I like staying in one place.”
Richard Kuppelton turned back to his books of figures. He wondered helplessly, as he wrote, how anyone could be as deceitful as Robert Holton. It was obvious to him that Holton would get the job he was to have gotten and he certainly could not get this job without being deceitful. Richard Kuppelton was worried about this. He was also worried because he found himself hating Robert Holton and his mother would never have approved of that.
Chapter Five
The ulcer was the most important thing.