The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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hid down there in the shop where he could watch you drop the envelope
behind my machine. I got a witness, yuh understand!" Mr. Bince did understand, but still he managed to control his temper. "What of it?" he said. "Nobody would believe your story, but let's forget that. What we want to do is get rid of Torrance." "That isn't all you want to do," said Krovac. "There is something else." Bince realized that he was compromised as hopelessly already as he could be if the man had even more information. "Yes," he said, "there is something beside Torrance's interference in the shop. He's interfering with our accounting system and I don't want it interfered with just now." "You mean the pay-roll?" asked Krovac. "It might be," said Bince. "You want them two new guys that are working in the office croaked, too?" asked Krovac. "I don't want anybody 'croaked'," replied Bince. "I didn't tell you to kill Torrance in the first place. I just said I didn't want him to come back here to work." "Ah, hell, what you givin' us?" growled the other. "I knew what you meant and you knew what you meant, too. Come across straight. What do |
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