During the next hour a score or more bookkeepers came to him with
bills, letters and papers of all descriptions. To one and all he said,
with a yawn, and very impatiently: "Leave what you have brought on my
desk; I'll look over it this afternoon."
Then it occurred to him that such a great concern must have a general
manager, and of course he would know something about the different
papers these people had brought for his inspection and for him to pass
upon, which were like so much Greek to him.
In answer to his summons, a tall, dignified, keen-eyed elderly man
responded--a man who struck considerable awe to Kendale's guilty heart.
He said to himself that he wished to the Lord he knew this man's name to
be able to call him by it--but of course it couldn't be helped.
"I have concluded to permit you to attend to these matters for me--get
through them the best you can in your own way without bothering me with
them; do just as you would if I were away on a vacation, we will say,
and left everything in your charge--all matters for you to settle as you
deemed best.
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