“What you wish to tell me,” evenly. “Neither more nor less.”
“You have no curiosity?”
Randall made no comment this time, merely waited.
“Very well, then, if you have no curiosity.... 125 I don’t know how much to tell you anyway, what you don’t already know. As I said when I first came in, I didn’t have it in mind to bore you at all, I just wanted to ask your opinion—” The speaker halted and hurriedly lit the cigar he had been holding. “To jump into the thick of it, I got a little letter from the president to-day, a little—warning.” Armstrong smoked fiercely until the flame lit up his face. “It’s the bitterest humiliation of my life, Harry, the last straw!”
CHAPTER VII
REBELLION
For a moment Harry Randall said nothing, then deliberately he glanced up and met his friend’s eyes direct.
“Begin at the beginning and tell me the whole story,” he said soberly. “I had no idea the thing was really so serious.”