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Updated: May 27, 2025
What he brought me was that dummy in a freshly sealed envelope. I was going to open the envelope, but just then Ackerton came in." "All clear so far," said Gantry; and then: "Where is Collins now?" "I don't know; he comes and goes pretty much as he pleases when I'm not in town." "Do you know anything about him personally?" "No." "I do.
"Don't be afraid of spending a little money," wrote the great man. "Make your up-town headquarters as attractive as may be, and arrange matters with Ackerton so that your office will not be burdened with too much of the routine legal work. A successful legal representative will be a good mixer as I am sure you are and will extend the circle of his acquaintance as rapidly and as far as possible.
McVickar dragged a chair over to one of the windows commanding a view of the busy street, and dropping solidly into it, like a man bracing himself for a fight, began abruptly: "I suppose we may as well cut out the preliminaries and come to the point at once, Blount. Ackerton wired me that you had definitely announced your son as a candidate for the attorney-generalship. Have you?"
If he had looked up at the stenographer then he would have seen the mask of innocence slip aside to discover a face ashen with terror. But whatever the shorthand man had to fear from the opening of the lately sealed envelope was postponed by the incoming of Ackerton, the working head of the legal department, with a damage suit to discuss with his chief.
Ackerton, a technical expert with a needle-like mind and the State code at his fingers'-ends, was left in charge of the working offices in the railroad building, with instructions to apply to his chief only when he needed specific advice. At the up-town headquarters, Blount gave himself wholly to the pleasant task of making friends.
In a flash Blount remembered: how he had sent Collins to get the packet out of the safe, the stenographer's delay, the hasty sealing of the envelope, and the suspicion which had been cut short by the incoming of Ackerton. "I know now who did it, and when it was done," he said. "The day before the office was broken into I told Collins to bring me the papers from the safe.
The boy's law-office job is to be pretty largely nominal; a sort of go-as-you-please and do-as-you-like proposition on the side, with Ackerton to do all the sure-enough court work and legal drudgery.
Since Ackerton is a pretty clean fellow, and Evan stands up so straight that he leans over backward, this lay-out means that the bribing isn't going to be done by the legal department in the coming campaign." "Is that all?" "All but one little thing.
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