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Updated: May 11, 2025
Down at the office of Skinyer and Beatem, the lawyers of the company, they were working overtime drawing up deeds and conveyances and trusts in perpetuity, with hardly time to put them into typewriting.
"And I'd like to do something, if I could, for Mr. Boomer himself, just as man to man," said Tomlinson. "All right," said Beatem, and he could hardly keep his face straight. "Give him a chunk of the stock give him half a million." "I will," said Tomlinson; "he deserves it." "Undoubtedly," said Mr. Skinyer.
You and I know it very good but we know it more from our trained instinct in such things than by any proof. The fellow has managed to surround himself with such an air of good faith from start to finish that it will be deuced hard to get at him." "What will he do now?" said Beatem. "I tell you what he'll do. Mark my words.
"Why, he's giving his entire fortune to the university." "By Gad!" ejaculated Beatem, and the two lawyers looked at one another, lost in admiration of the marvellous genius and assurance of Tomlinson. Yet what had happened was very simple. Tomlinson had come back from the university filled with mingled hope and hesitation.
"Well, mother," said the Wizard, when he reached the thousand-dollar suite, after his interview with Skinyer and Beatem, his face irradiated with simple joy, "it's done. I've put the college now in a position it never was in before, nor any other college; the lawyers say so themselves." "That's good," said mother. "Yes, and it's a good thing I didn't lose the money when I tried to.
For when all the affairs of the Erie Auriferous Consolidated were presently calculated up by the labours of Skinyer and Beatem and the legal representatives of the Orphans and the Idiots and the Deaf-mutes they resolved themselves into the most beautiful and complete cipher conceivable.
"Now then," he continued, "let us see how it is to run." "Well," said Tomlinson, "I want you to put it that I give all my stock in the company to the university." "All of it?" said Skinyer, with a quiet smile to Beatem. "Every cent of it, sir," said Tomlinson; "just write down that I give all of it to the college."
And whether the gentle Wizard, as he sat with mother planning his vast benefaction to Plutoria University, would have felt more at home with his new group of fellow-shareholders than his old, it were hard to say. But, meantime, at the office of Skinyer and Beatem all was activity.
"I thought of setting Skinyer, of Skinyer and Beatem, to work on the form of the organization. As you know he is not only a deeply religious man but he has already handled the Tin Pot Combination and the United Hardware and the Associated Tanneries. He ought to find this quite simple." Within a day or two Mr. Skinyer had already commenced his labours.
The salted gold about paid for the cost of the incorporation certificate: the development capital had disappeared, and those who lost most preferred to say the least about it; and as for Tomlinson, if one added up his gains on the stock market before the fall and subtracted his bill at the Grand Palaver and the thousand dollars which he gave to Skinyer and Beatem to recover his freehold on the lower half of his farm, and the cost of three tickets to Cahoga station, the debit and credit account balanced to a hair.
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