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been a bad man to his employees, and
that he had always been ready to listen
to their grievances.

Luke Slater’s words and his ugly ex-
pression haunted Grant all day. What
had the man meant? Did he intend to
pour a bucket of water over the coveted
fireworks so that they would be useless ?
Well, if he did it was no affair of Grant
Murray’s. Philip had advised him to try
minding his own business, and he would
take the advice.

Still, as the day drew near its close
Grant grew more and more restless. He
reflected that Philip could not help being
born rich any more than he could help
being poor. He remembered that Philip
had always been generous to his play-
mates, and eager to share his pleasures
with them. Once or twice Grant was
tempted to go and tell him that his ar-