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He had first made friends with the man who was now the powerful head of English finance, when Glenwilliam was the young check-weigher of a large Staffordshire colliery; and the friendship little known except to an inner ring was now an important factor in English politics.
One day a stranger, purporting to be a walking delegate for the United Miners, but repudiated as such by check-weigher Ludlow, took up his residence in Gordonia and began to interest himself, quite unminer-like, in the various mechanical appliances of the Chiawassee plant, and particularly in the different sources of its water supply.
He was check-weigher at the Acme pit here for years, before they made him district secretary of the union." "That's why they gave me such a hot meeting here a fortnight ago! I remember now; but one thing drives another out of one's head. Well, I daresay you and I'll have plenty more to do with Burrows before we've done." Tressady threw himself back in his corner with a yawn. Fontenoy laughed.
To lay hands on the Coryston estates and the position which a Coryston marriage could give the daughter of the Yorkshire check-weigher the temptation had only to be stated to be realized. And, no doubt, in addition, there would be the sweetness for such persons as the Glenwilliams of a planned and successful revenge. Well, the scheme was simple; but the remedy was simple also.
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