CHAPTER TEN
Like everything else in life, I guess you have to have experience to be a crook. Although I had timed my intrusion into the Hammond office so that it would look like I was just staying late, I was upset and fumbling when I tried to get in. Somehow, the sight of Conrad P. Hammond, red-faced, and giving the whole office staff a lecture on honesty because of some missing stamps and pencils, swam before my eyes.
"I'll make a eunuch out of anybody I catch crooking something in this office," he had bellowed. And then, he proceeded to describe in detail just how he'd do it with the old-fashioned straight razor he kept in his desk snipping off the thief s balls. All the girls wondered what he'd do to a woman thief....
Trying to act nonchalant, I steadied my trembling hand and tired
