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And since his return to Morrison he had been spending a surprisingly large share of his days in conference with Hardwick Elliott and his partner, Ainnesley. Now his reply to his sister's query was startlingly fervid. "Progress!" he exclaimed. "Progress! I tell you he's going to win out, in spite of all of them, damn 'em!" Miss Sarah froze in her chair. "Caleb!" she expostulated. "Caleb!"
O'Mara, I doubt if I would even insinuate this to anyone else; I haven't even intimated it to Ainnesley as yet. Wickersham is reputed to represent huge moneyed foreign interests. But have you ever stopped to wonder whether he might not represent big local interests as well?" The tanned face opposite him was so gravely blank that Elliott once more laughed nervously, deprecatingly.
It brought a blaze to Allison's eyes that nerveless monosyllable. "That doesn't interest you, eh?" he snapped. "Doesn't interest you at all! Well, it does me. Three months ago I bought into this affair because I was as sure as any man could be that I'd collect a hundred per cent on my money, next spring. Elliott and Ainnesley? Pah! Nice gentle old ladies, when it comes to a game like this.
Elliott suggested him as the one man for this job, when I consolidated with the Ainnesley crowd and they took up the contract to move the Reserve timber from Thirty-Mile and the valleys above. Elliott knew of him, but I've been looking up his record pretty closely, since he took hold in earnest.
Before daybreak a rider had come from Morrison, bearing word from Hardwick Elliott that Ainnesley was on from Manhattan and wanted to talk with him; before the camp was fairly awake he had ridden away into the south. And returning two days later, travelling the lower, lesser trails that followed the river, in order to save time, Steve missed her party going out.
The insect's droning wings as it persisted again and again back to the sandwich plate made the only sound in that big, bare room. "And if I if I had to guess " The hand passed across his eyes now. "O'Mara, do you know how deeply Mr. Ainnesley and myself are involved in this prospect?" After a long search the engineer of the East Coast Company had finally located his pipe.
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