“Why I—why, yes, sir, as near as I, could remember it,” stammered Mr. Hope.
“Thank you.” The president rang his buzzer. “Ask Mr. Rand to step in here immediately.”
The girl was back with Jimmy in less than a minute. The president did not ask him to sit down, so he stood just inside the door, looking from one to the other of the three men, and wondering what was about to happen.
“Mr. Rand, Mr. Cooper informs me that you were first employed by this company on April 18 last.”
“Yes, sir—I don’t remember.”
“His records show that. You do remember your first interview with me?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Is it your remembrance that it occurred on the day before you started with us?”
“Yes, sir; I’m sure of that.”
“When you left me that morning, you went directly into Mr. Hope’s office?”