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His
head
drawn
into
his
shoulders
,
he
was
looking
at
them
with
the
anger
of
a
man
declaring
that
the
country
’
s
troubles
were
a
personal
affront
to
him
.
So
many
men
seeking
favors
had
been
afraid
of
him
that
he
now
acted
as
if
his
anger
were
a
solution
to
everything
,
as
if
his
anger
were
omnipotent
,
as
if
all
he
had
to
do
was
to
get
angry
.
Yet
,
facing
him
,
the
men
who
sat
in
a
silent
semicircle
before
his
desk
were
uncertain
whether
the
presence
of
fear
in
the
room
was
their
own
emotion
or
whether
the
hunched
figure
behind
the
desk
generated
the
panic
of
a
cornered
rat
.
Wesley
Mouch
had
a
long
,
square
face
and
a
flat
-
topped
skull
,
made
more
so
by
a
brush
haircut
.
His
lower
lip
was
a
petulant
bulb
and
the
pale
,
brownish
pupils
of
his
eyes
looked
like
the
yolks
of
eggs
smeared
under
the
not
fully
translucent
whites
.
His
facial
muscles
moved
abruptly
,
and
the
movement
vanished
,
having
conveyed
no
expression
.
No
one
had
ever
seen
him
smile
.
Wesley
Mouch
came
from
a
family
that
had
known
neither
poverty
nor
wealth
nor
distinction
for
many
generations
;
it
had
clung
,
however
,
to
a
tradition
of
its
own
:
that
of
being
college
-
bred
and
,
therefore
,
of
despising
men
who
were
in
business
.
The
family
’
s
diplomas
had
always
hung
on
the
wall
in
the
manner
of
a
reproach
to
the
world
,
because
the
diplomas
had
not
automatically
produced
the
material
equivalents
of
their
attested
spiritual
value
.
Among
the
family
’
s
numerous
relatives
,
there
was
one
rich
uncle
.
He
had
married
his
money
and
,
in
his
widowed
old
age
,
he
had
picked
Wesley
as
his
favorite
from
among
his
many
nephews
and
nieces
,
because
Wesley
was
the
least
distinguished
of
the
lot
and
therefore
,
thought
Uncle
Julius
,
the
safest
.
Uncle
Julius
did
not
care
for
people
who
were
brilliant
.
He
did
not
care
for
the
trouble
of
managing
his
money
,
either
;
so
he
turned
the
job
over
to
Wesley
.
By
the
time
Wesley
graduated
from
college
,
there
was
no
money
left
to
manage
.
Uncle
Julius
blamed
it
on
Wesley
’
s
cunning
and
cried
that
Wesley
was
an
unscrupulous
schemer
.
But
there
had
been
no
scheme
about
it
;
Wesley
could
not
have
said
just
where
the
money
had
gone
.
In
high
school
,
Wesley
Mouch
had
been
one
of
the
worst
students
and
had
passionately
envied
those
who
were
the
best
.
College
taught
him
that
he
did
not
have
to
envy
them
at
all
.
After
graduation
,
he
took
a
job
in
the
advertising
department
of
a
company
that
manufactured
a
bogus
corn
-
cure
.
The
cure
sold
well
and
he
rose
to
be
the
head
of
his
department
.
He
left
it
to
take
charge
of
the
advertising
of
a
hair
-
restorer
,
then
of
a
patented
brassiere
,
then
of
a
new
soap
,
then
of
a
soft
drink
—
and
then
he
became
advertising
vice
-
President
of
an
automobile
concern
.
He
tried
to
sell
automobiles
as
if
they
were
a
bogus
corn
-
cure
.
They
did
not
sell
.
He
blamed
it
on
the
insufficiency
of
his
advertising
budget
.
It
was
the
president
of
the
automobile
concern
who
recommended
him
to
Rearden
.
It
was
Rearden
who
introduced
him
to
Washington
—
Rearden
,
who
knew
no
standard
by
which
to
judge
the
activities
of
his
Washington
man
.
It
was
James
Taggart
who
gave
him
a
start
in
the
Bureau
of
Economic
Planning
and
National
Resources
—
in
exchange
for
double
crossing
Rearden
in
order
to
help
Orren
Boyle
in
exchange
for
destroying
Dan
Conway
.
From
then
on
,
people
helped
Wesley
Mouch
to
advance
,
for
the
same
reason
as
that
which
had
prompted
Uncle
Julius
:
they
were
people
who
believed
that
mediocrity
was
safe
.
The
men
who
now
sat
in
front
of
his
desk
had
been
taught
that
the
law
of
causality
was
a
superstition
and
that
one
had
to
deal
with
the
situation
of
the
moment
without
considering
its
cause
.
By
the
situation
of
the
moment
,
they
had
concluded
that
Wesley
Mouch
was
a
man
of
superlative
skill
and
cunning
,
since
millions
aspired
to
power
,
but
he
was
the
one
who
had
achieved
it
.
It
was
not
within
their
method
of
thinking
to
know
that
Wesley
Mouch
was
the
zero
at
the
meeting
point
of
forces
unleashed
in
destruction
against
one
another
.
"
This
is
just
a
rough
draft
of
Directive
Number
10
-
289
,
"
said
Wesley
Mouch
,
"
which
Gene
,
Clem
and
I
have
dashed
off
just
to
give
you
the
general
idea
.
We
want
to
hear
your
opinions
,
suggestions
and
so
forth
—
you
being
the
representatives
of
labor
,
industry
,
transportation
and
the
professions
.
"
Fred
Kinnan
got
off
the
window
sill
and
sat
down
on
the
arm
of
a
chair
.
Orren
Boyle
spit
out
the
butt
of
his
cigar
.
James
Taggart
looked
down
at
his
own
hands
.
Dr
.
Ferris
was
the
only
one
who
seemed
to
be
at
ease
.
