Chapter 22

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​⁠There had come to be more and more room on the floor as the crowd dispersed slowly. Many of the young owls were by daylight bank-clerks and office assistants, learning their father's trades of money. They were remembering that they must be up betimes in the morning. They had been campaigning all winter on short rations of sleep. If they made up lost slumber anywhere, it was at their desks, to whic