XXIV
THE NEW KING
Samuel Cleever, a tall, thin dyspeptic with a pince-nez and English intonation, was moved from Newark, N.J., to succeed the old man.
His first conference with Georgia was brief. "Good morning, Miss Ah-ah-"
"Connor."
"Quite so. Do you understand the Singer cross-filing reference system?"
"I understand cross-indexing and card-catalogues."
"The Singer system specifically, do you know that?"
"No, sir."
"So I feared."