I want to hear Rich Kendrick
talking business--with a big B."
"I'll talk business to you, if you don't let up," declared his friend.
"You've got to be cured of the idea that this is some kind of a joke,
Lorry. Will you be kind enough to take me seriously?"
"Find--that--impossible," drawled Lorimer, under his breath, as he
followed Richard into the store.
But once there, of course, his manner changed to the most courteous of
which he was master. He was taken to the office and there shook hands
with Hugh Benson with cordiality, having known him at college as a man
who commanded respect for high scholarship and modest but assured
manners, though of a quite different class of comradeship from his own.
He talked pleasantly with Alfred Carson, and listened with evident
interest to a business discussion between Richard and his associates, in
the course of which he discovered that however much or little Richard
had learned, he could speak intelligently concerning the matters then in
hand. He went to lunch with Richard and Hugh Benson at a hotel, and
listened again, for a decision was to be made which called for haste,
and no time could be lost in the consideration of it.
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