It was 8:30 when Lucilla reached the office.

"When I need you, where are you?" G.G. asked sourly. "Learned last night that the top dog at Karry Karton Korporation is in town today, so they\'ve pushed that conference up from Friday to ten this morning. If you\'d been here early—or even on time—we might at least have gotten some of the information together."

Lucilla laid the stack of material on his desk. "I haven\'t had time to flag the pages yet," she said, "but they\'re listed on the library request on top. We did nineteen ads for KK last year and three of premium offers. I stopped by Sales on my way in—Susie\'s digging out figures for you now."

"Hm-m-m," said G.G. "Well. So that\'s where you\'ve been. You could at least have let me know." There was grudging approval beneath his gruffness. "Say, how\'d you know I ne............