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"You will have to think about me as you please," he said; "I cannot influence that,
but I want you to understand that you are not to interfere with my work. I think
we understand one another perfectly, Miss Compton. Good night."
And as he closed the door behind him he left a very angry young lady biting her
lower lip and almost upon the verge of angry tears.
"
The boor," she exclaimed; "he dared to order me about and threaten me."
The telephone interrupted her unhappy train of thoughts. It was Bince.
"I am sorry, Elizabeth," he said, "but I won't be able to come up this evening. I
have some important business to attend to. How is your father?"
"
He seems very tired and despondent," replied Elizabeth. "That efficiency person
was here to dinner. He just left."
She could not see the startled and angry expression of Bince's face as he received
this information. "Torrance was there?" he asked. "How did that happen?"
"Father asked him to dinner, and when he wanted to discharge the fellow
Torrance told him something that upset father terribly, and urged that he be kept
a little while longer, to which father agreed."
"What did he tell him?" asked Bince.
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