Kenyon done?'
'Kenyon, as I think you know, has got all the facts in reference to the
demand for the mineral, and I have arranged them. We have had everything
printed as you suggested, and the papers are ready. They were delivered
at my office to-day.'
'Very well,' answered young Longworth; 'we are getting on. That is so
much done which will not have to be done over again. Perhaps it will be
as well to send me some of the printed matter, so that I can give it to
the men I was speaking of. Meanwhile, don't worry about the offices; they
will be ready in good time.'
Wentworth and Kenyon visited the new offices time and again, but still
the work seemed to drag. At last Wentworth said very sharply to the
foreman:
'Unless this is finished by next Monday, we will have nothing to do with
it.'
The foreman seemed astonished.
'I understood from Mr. Longworth,' he said, 'from whom we take our
instructions, that there was no particular hurry about this job.'
'Well, there is a particular hurry. We must be in here by the first of
next week, and if you have not finished by that time, we shall have to
come in with it unfinished.'
'In that case,' said the foreman, 'I will do the best I can. I think we
can finish it this week.'
And finished it was accordingly.
When Kenyon entered his new offices, he found them rather oppressive for
so modest a man as himself. Wentworth laughed at his doleful expression
as he viewed the general grandeur of his surroundings.
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