The
result, the complete disorganisation of Mr. Rae's business, and
total demoralisation of Mr. Rae's office staff, who one and all swore
allegiance to the young chief. Finally, when Mr. Rae had reached the
depths of desperation, Cameron graciously deigned to inform his boss
that he found the office and its claims quite insupportable."
"Oh, it must have been funny. What happened?"
"What happened? You bet old Rae fell on his neck with tears of joy, and
sent him off with a handsome honorarium, as your gentle speech has it.
That was a fortnight ago. Then Dunn, in despair, took Cameron off to his
native haunts, and there he is to this day. By the same token, this is
the very afternoon that Dunn returns. Let us go to meet him with cornets
and cymbals! The unexpected pleasure of your return made me quite
forget. But won't he revel in you, old boy!"
"I don't know about that," said Linklater gloomily. "I've a kind of
feeling that I've dropped out of this combination."
"What?" Then Martin fell upon him.
But if Martin's attempts to relieve his friend of melancholy forebodings
were not wholly successful, Dunn's shout of joy and his double-handed
shake as he grappled Linklater to him, drove from that young man's heart
the last lingering shade of doubt as to his standing with his friends.
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