"I've been—they don't want——"
Hal halted, aghast.
"You don't mean to say they've asked you to quit?"
"Yes."
The boy's eyes blazed.
"It's Corcoran, the cur! He's done it to get back at me for what I said to him."
"You think so?"
"Sure!"
"But why choose me? I had nothing to do with the squabble."
"That's just the point. He's smart enough to know it would hit me a darn sight harder to have you lose your job than to lose my own," blustered her brother wrathfully.