He set his teeth tight.

This was his risk and he must take it.
For several hours he remained in his office, engaged in a scheme for the redirection of its policy.

With the absence of Morrison, too, there were other changes to be made,--changes in the nature of the business they were prepared to handle, limits to be fixed.
It was not until nearly luncheon time that the telephone, the simultaneous arrival of several clients, and the breathless entry of his own head-clerk rushing in from the house, told him what was going on.
"'Unions' have taken their turn at last!" the clerk announced, in an excited tone.

"They sagged a little this morning, but since eleven they have been going steadily up.

Just now there seems to be a boom.