You had the one opportunity of your life the other day.
"I expect that you will have reconsidered your refusal to Wade, to obey Hugh Worthington's orders by my return." "So you know all about it, do you ?" fiercely retorted Randall Clayton.
"I fancied that Wade was dealing directly with Hugh, himself, by the tone of the Chief's letters and the telegrams which I have received." "The matter has been referred to me," hotly answered Ferris, who dared not openly use his new power.

"But I will not wait here to discuss this matter.

I may miss my train." Arthur Ferris sharply rang a bell, and then, with a nod of recognition, directed the young Einstein to take his traps down stairs and call him a carriage.
The door clanged and the two secret enemies were left facing each other.
"I had fancied," said Clayton, bitterly, "that a lifetime spent in Hugh Worthington's service would at least win me a dismissal at first hands.
"Wade has tried to force me to throw up a position for which I was previously named by Worthington.

I imagined that the Chief was really going abroad.

He seems to have changed his plans.