"She's wonderful," he remarked a moment later, as he and Kirk
descended the hotel steps together. "She told Colonel Jolson he'd
just have to find you a position, and I have been delegated to
show you about."

"You don't say. I supposed there were plenty of openings."

"Not good ones. However, she usually gets what she wants. If I'm
not a good guide, you must put it down to inexperience."

"The Cortlandts seem to have considerable influence for outsiders.
I thought I'd have to begin at the bottom."

Runnels glanced at his companion quickly.

"Outsiders! You don't call them outsiders?"

"I never quite figured out who they are. Funny, by-the-way, how
everybody says 'they' in referring to them."

"Oh, she's the whole team. Cortlandt's a nice fellow--but--Did you
really think that she'd let you start at the bottom?"

"Why, yes."

"I guess you don't know her."

"You're right; I do not."

"Well, she knows everybody and everything in this country. She's