"
"Do you feel that you'll keep within the appropriation by making enemies
who deliberately blow up our masonry?" glared Mr. Bascomb.
"I doubt if there will be any more expense in that line, sir. I intend
to have such a watch kept over the wall as to prevent any further mischief
of the kind."
"Watchmen are an item of expense, aren't they?" snorted the president.
"Yes, sir; but next to nothing at all as compared with the mischief they
can prevent."
"I have already told you how to prevent the mischief, Reade. Stop all of
your foolish nonsense and let the men have their old-time pastimes."
"I can't do it, sir."
"Have you paper, pen and ink here?" thundered Mr. Bascomb. "If so, bring
them."
Tom quietly obeyed.
"Reade," again thundered the president of the Melliston Company, "I have
had as much of your nonsense as I intend to stand. You are out of here,
from this minute. Take that pen and sign your resignation!"
CHAPTER VII
TOM ISN'T AS EASY AS HE LOOKS
"I don't believe I'll do that, sir," murmured Tom, putting down the pen.
"You don't, eh?"
"No, sir."
"Oh, then you'd rather wait and be forced out?"
"How about the contract, sir, between your company and Reade & Hazelton?
Contracts can't be broken as lightly as your words imply.
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