You know how chummy he always gets
after a couple of smiles. Well, he was talking about--I was
saying you're a good man and hoping you were having a good
time--and he said, `Yes,' he says, `he's a good man, but he sure
did lay himself wide open by taking this trip. I've got him
dead to rights,' he says to me. `I've got a hunch he'll be
back here in three or four months,' he says to me. `And do you
think he'll walk in and get what he wants? Not him. I'll keep
him waiting a month before I give him back his job, and then you
watch, Rabin,' he says to me, `you'll see he'll be tickled to
death to go back to work at less salary than he was getting, and
he'll have sense enough to not try this stunt of getting off the
job again after that. And the trip'll be good for him,
anyway--he'll do better work--vacation at his own expense--save
us money all round. I tell you, Rabin,' he says to me, `if any
of you boys think you can get the best of the company or me you
just want to try it, that's all.' Yessir, that's what the old
rat told me.
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