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Tolman Bike was engaged in conversation with foreman Flint when Dido opened the door and entered.

He lifted his head, and never noticing Dido, fixed a look of absolute horror on Maggie Williams's tear-stained and swollen face, as he rose pale and trembling and gasped in a husky tone:

"Why do you come to me?"

Margaret gazed stupidly at him with her small, grey eyes, offering no reply.

Dido, greatly astonished at Mr. Bike's manner, stammered out that she represented the girls he employed, who had decided to