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" His boyish diminutive
had stuck to him. "You expect him to know as much about the mill
now as you do, after all these years."
"Not at all. I want him to learn. That's precisely the reason why
I'm not taking him in at once."
"How much salary is he to have?"
"Three thousand a year."
"Three thousand! Why, it will take all of that to buy him a car."
"There are three cars here now; I should think he could manage."
"Every boy wants his own car."
"I pay my other managers three thousand," he had said, still patient.
"He will live here. His car can be kept here, without expense.
Personally, I think it too much money for the service he will be
able to give for the first year or two."
And, although she had let it go at that, he had felt in her a keen
resentment. Graham had got a car of his own, was using it hard,
if the bills the chauffeur presented were an indication, and
Natalie had overdrawn her account two thousand five hundred dollars.
The evening wore on.


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