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The girl looked at him for a moment. "Your father is a business man?" she asked,
and without waiting for an answer, "Why don't you work for him?"
It was the first reference that Jimmy had ever made to his connections or his
past.
"
Oh," he said, "he's a long way off and--if I'm no good to any one here I certainly
wouldn't be any good to him."
His companion made no comment, but resumed her reading of the advertisement
before her:
WANTED, an Efficiency Expert--Machine works
capable of thoroughly reorganizing large business along modern lines,
stopping leaks and systematizing every activity. Call International
Machine Company, West Superior Street. Ask for Mr. Compton.
wants man
"What do you have to know to be an efficiency expert?" asked the girl.
"
From what I saw of the bird I just mentioned the less one knows about anything
the more successful he should be as an efficiency expert, for he certainly didn't
know anything. And yet the results from kicking everybody in the plant out of his
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