"You'll be surprised what I'll do for it," Marc said, "if you leave it here." He picked the bottle up and started around the desk with it. "Here, take it with you. I don't want you to have any excuse to come creeping back in here. Do you have your hat?"
But now the little man was as anxious to leave as Marc was to have him leave. He raced to the door and threw it open.
"Just keep it," he called back. "I'll drop back in a few days." And just before closing the door, he added, "I don't wear a hat."
Marc returned to the desk and sank into his chair. He deposited the bottle before him and regarded it thoughtfully. "Holy smoke," he murmured, "where do they come from, these crackpot ideas?"
The door opened and Memphis McGuire, Marc's secretary, bounded into the room. She was a large, healthy girl with an equally large and healthy contempt for formal office procedures. She hadn't had a decent girdle since the war.
"Hi, boss man," she said airily. "You look awful. What's the big beef?"
"I feel awful," Marc said. "Whatever possessed you to let that little creep in here? Or is this Ground Hog Day?"
"He talked so loud and so fast and so crazy," Memphis said, "I thought he might be a genius. Besides, he kept pointing at my wrinkles in front of the rest of the girls, and a lady can take just so much of that sort of thing. I had to get rid of him somehow. Get on your nerves?"
Marc nodded. "Got on 'em and stayed on 'em. My head is splitting."