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    Confidence Game
    Confidence Game
    Confidence Game
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    Confidence Game

    By James McKimmey

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Confidence Game - James McKimmey

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Confidence Game, by James McKimmey

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Confidence Game

      Author: James McKimmey

      Release Date: May 4, 2010 [EBook #32243]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONFIDENCE GAME ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, David Wilson and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber’s note:

      This story was published in If: Worlds of Science Fiction, September 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Illustrated by Ed Emsh

      CONFIDENCE GAME

      Cutter demanded more and more and more efficiency—and got it! But, as in anything, enough is enough, and too much is …

      By JAMES McKIMMEY, JR.

      George H. Cutter wheeled his big convertible into his reserved space in the Company parking lot with a flourish. A bright California sun drove its early brightness down on him as he strode toward the square, four-story brick building which said Cutter Products, Inc. over its front door. A two-ton truck was grinding backward, toward the loading doors, the thick-shouldered driver craning his neck. Cutter moved briskly forward, a thick-shouldered man himself, though not very tall. A glint of light appeared in his eyes, as he saw Kurt, the truck driver, fitting the truck's rear end into the tight opening.

      Get that junk out of the way! he yelled, and his voice roared over the noise of the truck's engine.

      Kurt snapped his head around, his blue eyes thinning, then recognition spread humor crinkles around his eyes and mouth. All right, sir, he said. Just a second while I jump out, and I'll lift it out of your way.

      With bare hands? Cutter said.

      With bare hands, Kurt said.

      Cutter's laugh boomed, and as he rounded the front of the truck, he struck the right front fender with his fist. Kurt roared back from the cab with his own laughter.

      He liked joking harshly with Kurt and with the rest of the truck drivers. They were simple, and they didn't have his mental strength. But they had another kind of strength. They had muscle and energy, and most important, they had guts. Twenty years before Cutter had driven a truck himself. The drivers knew that, and there was a bond between them, the drivers and himself, that seldom existed between employer and employee.

      The guard at the door came to a reflex attention, and Cutter bobbed his head curtly. Then, instead of taking the stairway that led up the front to the second floor and his office, he strode down

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