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Show -203- wanted to talk with someone about, something that had happened in the course of his work that troubled him so much he could not keep i t to himself. What t h i s was, as It came out, piece-meal, and almost reluctantly, was that certain large corporations had offered him bribes to recommend one project over another; and the amounts of money were not small. He had not mentioned figures, but they were high enough that even knowledge of them represented a burden. Accustomed as he was to thinking well of such successful businessmen, he ms as yet unprepared to damn them, even though his MWt and legal sense told him that what they proposed x-aas xirrong. He did not come asking for advice, and the boy could not, in any case, have given i t on the basis of -what he xias told or in light of his own experience. The significance of this meeting with his father was obscure, but i t was moving. In the past, his father had made a point of keeping a l l financial matters to himself, even the fact of his oxm salary, so that his confidence now seemed important for i t s own sake, regardless of the motive. The matter was never brought up again u n t i l i t came out in his f a t h e r ' s delirium a t the hospital. "Tell them I didn't give in. Tell them I will have nothing to do with their money." The words were murmured anxiously to some object of his |
