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And she would walk toward him, frightened and helpless
until his arms closed about her. It was entirely a game to him.
There were days, when Marion was trying, or the work of his
department was nagging him, when he scarcely noticed her at all.
But again the mischief in him, the idler, the newly awakened hunting
male, took him to her with arms outheld and the look of triumph in
his eyes that she mistook for love.
On one such occasion Joey came near to surprising a situation, so
near that his sophisticated young mind guessed rather more than the
truth. He went out, whistling.
He waited until Graham had joined the office force in the mill
lunchroom, and invented an errand back to Graham's office. Anna
was there, powdering her nose with the aid of a mirror fastened
inside her purse.
Joey had adopted Clayton with a sort of fierce passion, hidden
behind a pose of patronage.
"He's all right," he would say to the boys gathered at noon in the
mill yard. "He's kinda short-tempered sometimes, but me, I
understand him.


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