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"If," he reasoned, "I cannot find in any plant hundreds of operations that are not
being done in the simplest manner it will be because I haven't even ordinary
powers of observation or intelligence," for after his second interview with
Compton, Jimmy had suddenly realized that the job meant something to him
beside the two hundred and fifty dollars a month--that he couldn't deliberately
rob Compton, as he felt that he would be doing unless he could give value
received in services, and he meant to do his best to accomplish that end.
He knew that for a while his greatest asset would be bluff, but there was
something about Mason Compton that had inspired in the young man a vast
respect and another sentiment that he realized upon better acquaintance might
ripen into affection. Compton reminded him in many ways of his father, and with
the realization of that resemblance Jimmy felt more and more ashamed of the
part he was playing, but now that he had gone into it he made up his mind that
he would stick to it, and there was besides the slight encouragement that he had
derived from the enthusiasm of the girl who had suggested the idea to him and of
her oft-repeated assertion relative to her "hunch", that he would make good.
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