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He owned a little stock in the Ricks Lumber & Logging Company and already he had a vision of an extra dividend. "Absolute cost plus ten per cent," replied Cappy promptly. "No excess profits at the expense of the country at war, Skinner." He gazed upon Skinner contemplatively for several seconds. "And mind you don't figure the cost too liberally," he warned him. "Very well, sir. Is that all?"
I, Alden P. Ricks, whose great-grandfather died at Yorktown, whose grandfather was killed at Lundy's Lane, whose father won a medal of honor at Chapultepec I, Alden P. Ricks, who had to belong to the Home Guard because I was such a little runt they wouldn't take me in the Civil War to think that I should attain to seventy years and even be suspected of staining the flag of my country for the sake of a few dirty dollars after all the Ricks blood that has been shed for that flag!
"You loaned the Ricks Lumber Logging Company's million dollars to Matt Peasley to help buy that steamer for the Blue Star Navigation Company; and he, the son of a pirate, went to work and borrowed it from you, well knowing he had no business to do so. What are you paying the Marine National for that money?" "Five per cent," Skinner sniffled, for his heart was broken.
After that, you and Skinner and Gus Redell and Live Wire Luiz can collect the dividends." "Oh, Mr. Ricks! This is too much," Skinner began. "Tut, tut, sir! Not a peep out of you, sir! How dare you argue with me? Now just one word more before you fellers go: The next time you boys go bidding on a ship at auction, take a leaf out of Cappy Ricks' book and bid against yourself!
If those ricks were burned, the savings the nibblings of his life were gone. This intense, frost-bitten economy, by which alone he had been able to prosper, now threatened to overwhelm him with destruction. There is nothing that burns so resolutely as a hayrick; nothing that catches fire so easily.
He said further that, as a courtesy to me and his successor, he was shipping a crew that day in order that there might be no delay in sailing when the new captain arrived; so I thought I had better reply to that telegram, Skinner and I did!" "What did you say, Mr. Ricks?" "I said: 'Please do not annoy me with your telegrams.
Casually, then, and with seeming indifference, the Mole turned his talk to the harvest that was being gathered in, the towering wagons and their straining teams, the growing ricks, and the large moon rising over bare acres dotted with sheaves.
And now was the corner of the dry stone wall, where the moor gave over in earnest, and the partridges whisked from it into the corn lands, and called that their supper was ready, and looked at our house and the ricks as they ran, and would wait for that comfort till winter. And there I saw but let me go Annie was too much for me.
I want to turn in this big deal I've put over for stock in the Ricks Lumber and Logging Company and the Blue Star Navigation Company; and, then, with Skinner managing the lumber end, I'll sit in and run the fleet and you just sit round and help and offer advice, Mr. Ricks. Let me turn in the Narcissus for what I have been offered four hundred and fifty thousand dollars and take stock.
"Say, what town is this, anyway?" asked Ricks. "Clayton," said the boy, trying to keep his horse from backing. "Looks like somethin' was doin'," said Ricks. "Circus, I believe." "Then I don't blame your nag for wantin' to go back!" cried Sandy. "Come on, Ricks; let's take in the show!" Half-way down the hill he turned. "Haven't we seen that fellow before, Ricks?" "Not as I knows of.
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