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"I've been afraid all along that they'd corner you and beat you to death with feather-dusters," he lamented. "And the only thing I can say will make matters worse instead of better. I have it pretty straight that Gryson has been fired shooed out of town, and probably out of the State." "Who did it, Gantry?"
"Tell me about her," Gantry begged. "I don't often read a love story, but I like to hear 'em." If it had been any one but Gantry, Blount would probably have had a sharp attack of reticence, with outward symptoms unmistakable to the dullest. But the time, the surroundings, and the exceeding newness of Patricia's "No" combined to break down the barriers of reserve.
"An accessory to what?" "To the criminal disregard for the laws of this State and the nation which seems to be the underlying motive actuating every move in this corrupt game of politics. Gantry, if you and some others had your just deserts, you would be breaking stone in the penitentiary this blessed minute!" "Suffering Moses!" gasped the traffic manager.
She even had a smile to exchange for the gay greeting of Dolores. Mrs. Gantry met her with a kiss a full degree more fervent than was consistent with strict decorum. "My dear child!" she exclaimed. "I have hastened over to see you. Lord Avondale has told me all about that fellow."
"If he has faults, I am sure they are nothing more than gigantic virtues the faults of a man who is too strong and too magnanimous to be little in any respect." The final half-square lay behind them, and Mrs. Honoria and the senator, Gantry, Gordon and his wife, and the two Weatherfords, with one of the marriageable daughters, were at the café door waiting for the laggards.
"H'm," was the doubtful comment; "I'm afraid you'll have to elaborate that a little for me. I'm not up in the 'career' classification." "She has been studying at home and abroad in preparation for social-settlement work in the large cities. Of course, I knew about it; but I thought I hoped " "You hoped it was only a young woman's fad which it probably is," Gantry cut in.
It came to me in the shape of unsolicited letters from the men who are benefiting by the railroad company's evasion of the law, and who are, of course, equally criminal with the railroad officials. Why these letters were written to me I don't know, Gantry. I merely know that they were wholly unsolicited." "They were written to you because you are supposed to be the doctor in the present crisis."
The value of elevation of the crane is not only in allowing the loaded cars to be brought on tracks beneath it, but in giving it capacity to work over the sides of large vessels, which when light may rise twenty feet above the level of the quay, and to load or discharge from trucks on two lines of rails on the land-side of the gantry, overhead of the trucks on the two lines which run below the gantry.
"All right," said Gantry; "just as you say." And he made no effort to detain the enraged one who was turning his back and striding away. But after the self-discharged political manager was gone, the traffic man chuckled quietly and turned up a square of paper which had been lying on his desk during the short and belligerent interview.
The footman appeared in the hall entrance and announced: "Mr. Brice-Ashton." Ashton came in, effusive and eager. "My dear Miss Genevieve! I ah, Mrs. Gantry! Didn't expect to meet you here, such a day as this. Most unexpected ah pleasure! N'est-ce pas? No, no! my dear Miss Leslie; keep your seat!"
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