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The
clerk
sat
at
a
desk
in
a
ground
-
floor
office
,
where
dust
lay
undisturbed
on
the
files
and
few
visitors
ever
called
.
He
looked
at
the
shining
automobile
parked
outside
his
window
,
in
the
muddy
square
that
had
once
been
the
center
of
a
prosperous
county
seat
;
he
looked
with
a
faint
,
wistful
wonder
at
his
two
unknown
visitors
.
"
Why
?
"
asked
Dagny
.
He
pointed
helplessly
at
the
mass
of
papers
he
had
taken
out
of
the
files
.
"
The
court
will
have
to
decide
who
owns
it
,
which
I
don
’
t
think
any
court
can
do
.
If
a
court
ever
gets
to
it
.
I
don
’
t
think
it
will
.
"
"
Why
?
What
happened
?
"
"
Well
,
it
was
sold
out
—
the
Twentieth
Century
,
I
mean
.
The
Twentieth
Century
Motor
Company
.
It
was
sold
twice
,
at
the
same
time
and
to
two
different
sets
of
owners
.
That
was
sort
of
a
big
scandal
at
the
time
,
two
years
ago
,
and
now
it
’
s
just
"
—
he
pointed
—
"
just
a
bunch
of
paper
lying
around
,
waiting
for
a
court
hearing
.
I
don
’
t
see
how
any
judge
will
be
able
to
untangle
any
property
rights
out
of
it
—
or
any
right
at
all
.
"
"
Would
you
tell
me
please
just
what
happened
?
"
"
Well
,
the
last
legal
owner
of
the
factory
was
The
People
’
s
Mortgage
Company
,
of
Rome
,
Wisconsin
.
That
’
s
the
town
the
other
side
of
the
factory
,
thirty
miles
north
.
That
Mortgage
Company
was
a
sort
of
noisy
outfit
that
did
a
lot
of
advertising
about
easy
credit
.
Mark
Yonts
was
the
head
of
it
.
Nobody
knew
where
he
came
from
and
nobody
knows
where
he
’
s
gone
to
now
,
but
what
they
discovered
,
the
morning
after
The
People
’
s
Mortgage
Company
collapsed
,
was
that
Mark
Yonts
had
sold
the
Twentieth
Century
Motor
factory
to
a
bunch
of
suckers
from
South
Dakota
,
and
that
he
’
d
also
given
it
as
collateral
for
a
loan
from
a
bank
in
Illinois
.
And
when
they
took
a
look
at
the
factory
,
they
discovered
that
he
’
d
moved
all
the
machinery
out
and
sold
it
piecemeal
,
God
only
knows
where
and
to
whom
.
So
it
seems
like
everybody
owns
the
place
—
and
nobody
.
That
’
s
how
it
stands
now
—
the
South
Dakotans
and
the
bank
and
the
attorney
for
the
creditors
of
The
People
’
s
Mortgage
Company
all
suing
one
another
,
all
claiming
this
factory
,
and
nobody
having
the
right
to
move
a
wheel
in
it
,
except
that
there
’
s
no
wheels
left
to
move
.
"
"
Did
Mark
Yonts
operate
the
factory
before
he
sold
it
?
"
"
Lord
,
no
,
ma
’
am
!
He
wasn
’
t
the
kind
that
ever
operates
anything
.
