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`` I 'll be working for you , though , '' he qualified . `` I do n't take any jobs from H. V. Leslie -- not until that matter of the bridge plans is cleared up . '' At three minutes to ten the following morning Blake entered the doorway of the mammoth International Industrial Company Building . At one minute to ten he was facing the outermost of the guards who fenced in the private office of H. V. Leslie , capitalist . `` Your business , sir ? Mr. Leslie is very busy , sir . '' `` He told me to call this morning , '' explained Blake .