Another fatal defect.

The man to whom minutes are not potential gold and material potential product can never hope to be a manufacturer.
If only I had not been away from home! But the thing is, what is to be done ?" "In the words of a famous statesman much abused indeed, I suggest, 'Wait and see.' Meantime, find some way of kicking him into his job." This proved to be in the present situation a policy of wisdom.

It was Tony himself who furnished the solution.

From the men supposed to be working under his orders he learned the day following Maitland's visit of inspection something of the details of that visit.

He quickly made up his mind that the day of reckoning could not long be postponed.