"
"I don't get you."
"Well, if you want it in plain English, Ruth would never forgive me. Is
that clear enough?"
"You're dead wrong, boss," said Steve excitedly. "I know her."
"I thought I did. Well, anyway, Steve, thanks for the suggestion; but,
believe me, nothing doing. And now, if you feel like it, I wish you
would resume your celebrated imitation of a man exulting over the fact
that he is wearing Middleton's Undeniable. There isn't much more to do,
and I should like to get through with it to-day, if possible. There,
hold that pose. It's exactly right. The honest man gloating over his
suspenders. You ought to go on the stage, Steve."
Chapter VII
Cutting the Tangled Knot
There are some men whose mission in life it appears to be to go about
the world creating crises in the lives of other people. When there is
thunder in the air they precipitate the thunderbolt.
Bailey Bannister was one of these. He meant extraordinarily well, but
he was a dangerous man for that very reason, and in a properly
constituted world would have been segregated or kept under supervision.
He would not leave the tangled lives of those around him to adjust
themselves. He blundered in and tried to help. He nearly always
produced a definite result, but seldom the one at which he aimed.
That he should have interfered in the affairs of Ruth and Kirk at this
time was, it must be admitted, unselfish of him, for just now he was
having troubles of his own on a somewhat extensive scale.
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