"Up to my neck!" replied Bob earnestly.
"That's the way I like to have you talk even if it is a little slangy."
CHAPTER X
SOMETHING HAPPENS TO THE BOSS
THE next day was a repetition of the previous one so far as Steve's finding a position was concerned. At every place he was met by one of two answers. Either they were not in need of any extra men, or else they wished a letter from the corporation mills, giving the facts of the discharge of the Iron Boys.
Rush was beginning to think hard. He had discovered that getting on in the world was not all smooth sailing; still he was not disheartened.
In the meantime Ignatz Brodsky had not been idle. He had gone to his work and had stood the abuse of Foley, and occasionally that of Kalinski, though not in the latter's department, without making any retorts. Ignatz's face was stolid and emotionless.
That evening, however, having recovered from the kick he had received, he went out first in search of Superintendent Keating. The general superintendent, he learned, was in New York, and might return the next day or he might not.