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She invariably solved his perplexities or relegated them to the limbo of gentle ridicule. "Just why should he want this East Coast job to fail?" he puzzled aloud. "He's in it, along with Elliott and Ainnesley, even if he isn't in so deep. That is, of course, assuming that he does want it to fail."
"Who told you that?" he blurted, and Barbara giggled again. "Mr. Ainnesley, I think. Then it is true? I I never believed it before." Watching the blood creep up beneath his tanned skin, she told herself that she did like more than a little the way his eyelids crinkled when he grinned. "We were in San Domingo that year," he explained none too composedly.
He opened up, merely through his own name and all there is behind it, loan possibilities for which we might have struggled uselessly the rest of our lives without his help. Between us Mr. Ainnesley and I just managed to hold the balance of stock control and and that's how deep we are in, Mr. O'Mara." Both men sat and smoked, each avoiding, elaborately, the other's eyes.
"And Ainnesley why, Ainnesley wouldn't have a roof over his head if we failed in our obligations! You must know as well as I do why the banking interests took our paper to those amounts which made it possible for us to drive the first spike." When he failed to go on Steve understood that the last sentence had been a question. "Mr. Allison, I suppose." His voice became utterly impersonal.
It means as much to you as it does to Mr. Ainnesley and Mr. Elliott." Allison interrupted him. "Of course," he exclaimed. "Surely! I see! What I mean was how in the world can I make them understand that such a fool idea is all wrong? So far as this constructive work is concerned, I'm not an active member. I I had that understood with Elliott when I went into this thing!"
I do know that all that Ainnesley and I had scraped up between us looked like a shoe-string to him. "We couldn't move until he, of his own accord, expressed his enthusiasm for the plan and asked for a share in the holdings. You know, perhaps, how he can laugh, too. Well, he laughed that way and confessed that we had just beaten him to it.
I believed it six months ago, when Elliott and Ainnesley and the rest of them were so keen for it, and I believe it still, even though I have seen Elliott's engineer and know what he has already accomplished. That track'll never go through on schedule and that's why I'm up here for the winter. It's going to be a hot little race against time, with some millions for a purse.
After a long pause, Elliott cleared his throat, laboriously. "This morning," he continued slowly, "this morning I am in receipt of a communication from Mr. Ainnesley himself, advising me that another right of way has been applied for, for a single track road here in the north. The gossip which chanced to come his way was rather obscure.
Do you believe they can swing it in time to fulfill all their obligations?" Again there followed a moment's pause while Steve's eyes roved thoughtfully around the room. "Mr. Elliott wouldn't have risked every cent he has," he finally replied, "unless I had assured him that it wasn't so very much more than a man-sized gamble. Nor Mr. Ainnesley, either, I think.
"By Gad," he exclaimed, "by Gad, if it wasn't for Ainnesley I'd say the thing was worth it, win or lose, just for the game itself. You go ahead and see McLean. I'll be out there later, myself. I promised Allison that I'd show the works to some of the young folks up there on the hill. His daughter but I keep forgetting that you've known her longer than I have. There's quite a party of them.
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