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"One minute, Harnwicke!" he gasped, falling upon the first member of the corporations' lobby he could identify in the throng. "What's been done?" "They've taken a fall out of us," was the brusk reply. "House Bill Twenty-nine was reported by the committee on judiciary and rushed through after you left. It was as neat a piece of gag-work as I ever hope to see if I live to be a hundred."
"I am not in a position to say: I should advise against it. Unofficially, I think I can speak for Loring and the Boston people. We are not more saintly than other folk, perhaps; and we are not in the railroad business for health or pleasure. But I fancy the Advisory Board would draw the line at bribing a governor at any rate, I hope it would." "Rot!" said Harnwicke.
You know the man better than any of us." "By Jove!" said Kent. "Do you mean to say you would buy the governor of a state?" Harnwicke turned a cold eye on his companion as they strode along. He was of the square-set, plain-spoken, aggressive type a finished product of the modern school of business lawyers.
This unsympathetic point of view was sufficiently defined in a bit of shop-talk between Harnwicke, the cold-blooded, and his traffic manager in the office of the Overland Short Line the morning after the newspaper announcement of the receivership. "I told you they were in deep water," said the lawyer, confidently.
Kent faced about and joined the townward dispersal with his informant. "Well, I suppose that settles it definitely; at least, until we can test its constitutionality in the courts," he said. Harnwicke thought not, being of the opinion that the vested interests would never say die until they were quite dead.
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