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He heard his name called, and turning, saw Mr. Boner standing at the corner of the partition looking at him over his spectacles.
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Mr. Boner was a tall, heavy man with nervous twitchings and anxious eyes that were eternally shifting about beneath their brows for something disturbing.
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Joe rose to his feet, obeying the monosyllabic summons, and followed Mr. Boner around the partition.
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Mr. Boner rated a private office, where he could worm information, trade secrets, and occasional concessions from travelling salesmen.
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Suddenly Mr. Boner turned to the inner corner of the desk, started to speak, strangled, and with difficulty recovered himself.
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In fact, Mr. Boner was himself a study.
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Joe realized that Mr. Boner was speaking to him--was speaking with great feeling.
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Mr. Boner shoved two sheets of yellow paper across the desk toward him.
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"Waste stock," Mr. Boner muttered.
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Mr. Boner exploded again.
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As he slipped the paper across an intervening table, Mr. Boner straightened from a stooping inspection of a lower desk drawer, and Joe saw him furtively wipe a knife blade on the leg of his trousers and then turn upon him a look of mildest blue.
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Mr. Boner's shoes?
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He punched the time clock viciously as he passed through the office lobby and barely escaped collision with Mr. Boner as he turned the corner of the partition en route to his desk.
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Mr. Boner merely grunted.
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June and inventory and Mr. Boner seemed to him to be cut from the same piece.
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For neither did Mr. Boner escape.
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And he was Mr. Boner's successor--that is, if he hit the ball and worked hard enough to deserve it.
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Through the open door he could see Mr. Boner hunched up over his desk and as he watched, that gentleman suddenly plunged his head in a ducking motion toward the cuspidor on the floor and just as quickly bent down again over the desk.
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And he went into Mr. Boner's office.
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Mr. Boner looked up sidewise.
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Mr. Boner's eyes rolled slightly, showing the whites.
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Mr. Boner cleared his throat.
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He was getting sleepy, felt utterly fagged.
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Next to her was an old woman in a sleazy black dress with a turban-like hat all swathed with a long black veil hemmed with black.
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Joe watched his narrow, bent shoulders under the sleazy shirt.