"
The short man scowled, and then, as though suddenly thinking a frown was
not the best passport for gaining good-will, he smiled, at the same time
taking out the big bunch of keys which the watchman usually carried.
"I couldn't get them from anybody but Jake, could I?"
"I suppose not."
"Well, if your father has a right to send you to take his place when he
can't come, I think Jake can hire me to take his place when _he's_ sick.
That's about the size of it, my boy. But if you ain't satisfied, you
better go up and see the super. You know the kind of row he makes when
the hands follow him home to ask questions. He always says, if a man
can't think of enough to pester him about in the ten or twelve hours
he's around the works, they needn't try to follow him home with their
complaints."
"I will go to supper, Gid," said Larry, quietly.
But the man followed him to the door.
"Your father sick?" he asked.
"No."
"Gone away?"
"Yes."
"Coming back in the morning?"
"I don't know."
Gid snapped his fingers and forgot himself so far again as to scowl.
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