The Fruit of the Tree
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You are Amherst, assistant manager at Westmore Mills, standing over an injured worker whose crushed hand the company doctor calls a two-month recovery. Nurse Justine Brent tells you plainly that Dillon will lose the arm, and that management already knows it. When the mill's young, uncertain owner, Bessy Westmore, arrives to tour her property, you lead her off the approved route and into the carding room, where missing ledger pages confirm what Truscomb has been hiding. By evening, his answer to your evidence is your dismissal.
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