Do you wish me to leave?"
"If you can give me no better assurance of your innocence--if you can
give me no explanation of the peculiar and most unsatisfactory manner
in which you have met the charge--yes. To retain you here would be
unjust to my own interests, and unfair as regards Jenkins and Roland
Yorke."
To give this explanation was impossible; neither dared Arthur assert
more emphatically his innocence. Once convince Mr. Galloway that he was
not the guilty party, and that gentleman would forthwith issue fresh
instructions to Butterby for the further investigation of the affair:
of this Arthur felt convinced. He could only be silent and remain under
the stigma.
"Then--I had better--you would wish me, perhaps--to go at once?"
hesitated Arthur.
"Yes," shortly replied Mr. Galloway.
He spoke a word of farewell, which Mr. Galloway replied to by a nod,
and went into the front office. There he began to collect together
certain trifles that belonged to him.
"What's that for?" asked Roland Yorke.
"I am going," he replied.
"Going!" roared Roland, jumping to his feet, and dashing down his pen
full of ink, with little regard to the deed he was copying. "Galloway
has never turned you off!"
"Yes, he has."
"Then I'll go too!" thundered Roland, who, truth to say, had flown into
an uncontrollable passion, startling Jenkins and arousing Mr. Galloway.
"I'll not stop in a place where that sort of injustice goes on! He'll
be turning me out next! Catch me stopping for it!"
"Are you taken crazy, Mr.
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