"Are you hungry, Ruth, or have you an engagement with that Mr. Golter?" her aunt asked. "I am not very hungry and I haven't a date with anybody, but I have some work to do." After the meal was over Ruth worked for an hour and a quarter. After her work was finished she went out alone for a walk. She had walked about half way to the business section when she was agreeably surprised to meet Harold. "Well, when did you get back?" she asked. "Just got in, and was coming out to call on you." "I was just taking a walk. Will you walk with me, or shall we return to the house?" "I would just as soon walk. I have been riding on the train so long that I need to stretch myself." "How was the luck?" she inquired. "The finest kind. I got the job, and now it's up to me to make good." "I am sure you will do that," she said. "Ruth, it helps a lot to have someone who has confidence in you. Especially when that someone is one in whom you are interested--someone whom you think of as a real friend." "I am glad on your account that you landed this big job, and I am pleased that you will show Mr. Stover and McBryan that you can succeed without any of their help and in spite of them." "Ruth, I received a shock when I got off the train tonight." "Did you touch a live wire?" "No, worse than that. I heard of your affidavit in the paper, and I couldn't believe it until I got the paper and read it." "You shouldn't be shocked at a little thing like that." "I was afraid that you would be subjected to adverse criticism and that Stover would make it unpleasant for you at the bank." "He wasn't any too well pleased. He wanted to know why I did it. I told him I did it for fun; that I had no intention of injuring the Klan. He said that he did not care how much it hurt the Klan." "Oh, he didn't! That shows a lack of principle at which I am not surprised." "Mr. Stover has been good to me and was always a good friend of father's, but he has certainly done and said some things of which I cannot approve. These things have caused me to lose confidence in him to some extent, but, Harold, I can't help but believe that he thought that the only chance to secure the city job for you was to induce you to give up the Klan and that he really believes that it is a bad organization." "I think you are mistaken. I am of the opinion that Stover is just what he showed himself to be in his attempt to bribe me to turn traitor to the Klan and in this statement he made to you--a crook." "I don't think that. But--well, I don't know just how to explain it." "What did he object to about the prank that you played on Rastus?" "He said that he did not like to have one of the bank's employees the subject of comment and his friend Springer subjected to ridicule." "He's very solicitous about Springer's feelings."