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He was beginning to look at things with the twisted vision of
Marion's friends. He intended only to flirt a little with Anna
Klein, but he considered that he was extremely virtuous and,
perhaps, a bit of a fool for letting things go at that. Once,
indeed, Tommy Hale happened on them in a road-house, sitting very
quietly with a glass of beer before Graham and a lemonade in front
of Anna, and had winked at him as though he had received him into
the brotherhood of those who were seeing life.
Then, near the end of January, events took another step forward.
Rudolph Klein was discharged from the mill.
Clayton, coming down one morning, found the manager, Hutchinson,
and Dunbar in his office. The two men had had a difference of
opinion, and the matter was laid before him.
"He is a constant disturbing element," Hutchinson finished; "I
understand Mr. Dunbar's position, but we can't afford to have the
men thrown into a ferment, constantly."
"If you discharge him you rouse his suspicions and those of his
gang," said Dunbar, sturdily.


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