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He wondered, rather uncomfortably, what he would do, under the

circumstances, if it were in his power to declare peace to-, he found the general

h the door into the conference room beyond he

could see the superintendents of the various departments, with Graha of the most important

foremen On his desk, neatly machined, was the first tentative

shell-case made in the mill machine-shop, an experiment rather than a

realization

Hutchinson, the general er, was not alone Opposite him, very

neatly dressed in his best clothes, his hat in his hand and a set

expression on his face, was one of the boss rollers of the steel mill,

Herman Klein At Clayton's entrance he made a motion to depart, but

Hutchinson stopped hi ered his hat, but his face re, Mr Spencer," he said, in good English, but with

the guttural accent which thirty years in A you now"

"Leaving! Why?"

"Because of that!" He pointed, without intentional drama, at the

shell-case "I can't make those shells for you, Mr Spencer, and me a

German"