"I'll visitor you, inside of two minutes! Think I'm goin' to have YOU whipperty-snappin' round ?" The other clerks in the warehouse looked up.

Paul's office-boy appeared, holding some white article.
"Fanny says you could have had it last night if you'd let her know," he said.
"All right," answered Paul, looking at the stocking.

"Get it off." Dawes stood frustrated, helpless with rage.

Morel turned round.
"Excuse me a minute," he said to Dawes, and he would have run downstairs.
"By God, I'll stop your gallop!" shouted the smith, seizing him by the arm.

He turned quickly.
"Hey! Hey!" cried the office-boy, alarmed.
Thomas Jordan started out of his little glass office, and came running down the room.
"What's a-matter, what's a-matter ?" he said, in his old man's sharp voice.
"I'm just goin' ter settle this little--, that's all," said Dawes desperately.
"What do you mean ?" snapped Thomas Jordan.
"What I say," said Dawes, but he hung fire.
Morel was leaning against the counter, ashamed, half-grinning.
"What's it all about ?" snapped Thomas Jordan.
"Couldn't say," said Paul, shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders.
"Couldn't yer, couldn't yer!" cried Dawes, thrusting forward his handsome, furious face, and squaring his fist.
"Have you finished ?" cried the old man, strutting.