Hugh began to overstock some departments and understock
others. It's not so much lack of capital that'll be responsible for
Hugh's failure when it comes--and I guess it's not far off--as it is
lack of business experience. Why, he's got so little trade he's turned
off half his salespeople; and you know that talks!"
It did indeed. It talked louder now in the light of the druggist's
shrewd commentaries than it had when Benson had spoken of his "short
force." Richard wondered just how short it was, that the proprietor
could not venture to leave for even a few hours.
He drove on thoughtfully. He wanted to go back and look those windows
over again, wanted to go through the whole store, but recognized that
though he could have done this when he first arrived, he could not go
back and do it now without exciting his friend's suspicion that sympathy
was his motive.
He turned about at a point far short of the one he had intended to
reach, and made record time back to the city, impelled by an odd wish he
could hardly explain, to go by the windows of the great department
stores of Kendrick & Company and examine their window displays.
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