For most of that time he had been sitting with Grüsser. The Prussian had seemed desperate for company, and had asked Nathaniel question after question about why he thought Stanton had been so eager to get into a fight with the Southerner. Nathaniel had suggested that perhaps it was the man's murderous attitude towards negroes that had been the final straw, but Grüsser seemed unconvinced. He believed that the Industrialist's temper alone had been the cause of it. “Something set him off,” he had replied. “I've never seen him hit a man without a reason.” “Zen I very much hope zat Herr Stanton never finds a reason to hit me, Ja?” Later on they had taken dinner in the dining room. As disgusting as he found Grüsser's noisy eating habits, he found the slurping to be a definite improvement over his incessant chatter. Truth be told, Nathaniel had little or no idea what Clements had done that could make Stanton so angry. The White Knight's costume made it obvious that he had some strong feelings when it came to the negroes, no matter how much he protested that he wasn't involved with the Klan “in any official capacity,”
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