But I guess
he's interested enough or he wouldn't have agreed to my ruling that he
must go into the thing himself, not stand off and throw out a rope to
his drowning friend Benson. If young Benson's the man Dick makes him
out, it's as I told Dick: he wouldn't grasp the rope. But if Dick goes
in after him, that's business. Bless the rascal! I wish his father could
see him now. Sitting on the edge of my table and talking window-dressing
to me as if he'd been born to it, which he was, only he wouldn't accept
his birthright, the proud beggar! Talking about moving one of our
show-windows up there bodily for a white-goods sale in February; date a
trifle late for Kendrick & Company, but advance trade for Eastman,
undoubtedly. Says he knows they can start every mother's daughter of 'em
sewing for dear life, if they can get their eye on that sewing-room
scene. Well"--he paused to chuckle again--"he says Carson says that
window cost us five hundred dollars; but if it did it's cheap at the
price, and I'll make the new firm a present of it. Benson & Company--and
a grandson of Matthew Kendrick the Company!"
He laughed heartily, then paused to stand staring down into the jewelled
shade of his electric drop-light as if in its softly blending colourings
he saw the outlines of a new future for "the boy.
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