condensed master

Will Bonner
had enough. Picking up the briefcase he turned and walked out again.
"Where are you going Mr. Brenner? Are you alright Will?" He just kept going,
his entourage following him like a group of beggar boys in Bombay, until he
cleared the building into the street. The group stood there, seemingly helpless, their
mouths wide open.
He caught the next train and finally the local bus back to Vermont and home.
He sat on the back verandah, the sun was warm and it was so peaceful. Within the
hour a car pulled into the driveway and they tried to persuade him to go back, but
there was nothing on God's earth that would move him back to the brink of
insanity, and eventually they left him alone.
Dorothy was not home and he sat there in silence with the full realization of
what he had done. She was leaving work, the baby was due soon. Now he was
out of a job and it was his own fault. It was the moment for self chastisement and
he didn't spare the whip.
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