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chance to express an opinion. And I donтАЩt see why I should be made to take
the responsibility."
"I am taking it.
"What about the expenditure which"
"Rearden is charging less than Orren BoyleтАЩs Associated Steel."
"Yes, and what about Orren Boyle?"
"IтАЩve cancelled the contract. We had the right to cancel it six months ago."
"When did you do that?"
"Yesterday."
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"But he hasnтАЩt called to have me confirm it."
"He wonтАЩt."
Taggart sat looking down at his desk. She wondered why he resented the
necessity of dealing with Rearden, and why his resentment had such an odd,
evasive quality. Rearden Steel had been the chief supplier of Taggart
Transcontinental for ten years, ever since the first Rearden furnace was
fired, in the days when their father was president of the railroad. For ten
years, most of their rail had come from Rearden Steel. There were not many
firms in the country who delivered what was ordered, when and as ordered.
Rearden Steel was one of them.
If she were insane, thought Dagny, she would conclude that her brother hated
to deal with Rearden because Rearden did his job with superlative efficiency;
but she would not conclude it, because she thought that such a feeling was
not within the humanly possible.
"It isnтАЩt fair," said James Taggart.
"What isnтАЩt?"
"That we always give all our business to Rearden. It seems to me we should
give somebody else a chance, too. Rearden doesnтАЩt need us; heтАЩs plenty big
enough. We ought to help the smaller fellows to develop. Otherwise, weтАЩre
just encouraging a monopoly."
"DonтАЩt talk tripe, Jim,"
"Why do we always have to get things from Rearden?"
"Because we always get them."
"I donтАЩt like Henry Rearden."
"I do. But what does that matter, one way or the other? We need rails and
heтАЩs the only one who can give them to us."
"The human element is very important. You have no sense of the human element
at all."
"WeтАЩre talking about saving a railroad, Jim."
"Yes, of course, of course, but still, you havenтАЩt any sense of the human
element."
"No. I havenтАЩt."
"If we give Rearden such a large order for steel rails"
"TheyтАЩre not going to be steel. TheyтАЩre Rearden Metal."
She had always avoided personal reactions, but she was forced to break her
rule when she saw the expression on TaggartтАЩs face. She burst out laughing.
Rearden Metal was a new alloy, produced by Rearden after ten years of
experiments. He had placed it on the market recently. He had received no
orders and had found no customers.