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Clearly limned before his vision, he still saw the notes, the plans, the calculations he had been able to decipher in the Billionaire's lost note-book the note-book which now, deep in the pocket of his jumper that hung behind him on a hook against the wall, drew his every thought, as steel draws the compass-needle.
He glanced at his own fingers, as though he visibly perceived the great world lying there for him to squeeze. Waldron's eyes, following the Billionaire's, saw that Flint's hand was trembling, and understood the reason. More than three hours had passed nay, almost four since Flint had had any opportunity to take his necessary dose of morphia.
You, perhaps, can answer, as well as I, if you but remember that Billionaire's daughter though she was, and all unversed in the hard realities of life she was, at heart and soul, very much a woman after all.
Harley here, if he thinks he has any business with me that needs a personal interview." Smythe's leathery face had as much expression as a blank wall, but Eaton gasped. The unparalleled audacity of flinging the billionaire's overture back in his face left him for the moment speechless.
That night, at Englewood in the Billionaire's home and in the workman's simple room at Oakwood Heights history was being made. The outcome, tragic and terrible, who could have foreseen?
Waldron the arch-corruptionist; Waldron, who never yet had been "caught with the goods," but who had financed scores of industrial and political campaigns, with Flint's money and his own; Waldron, the smooth, the suave, the perilous. "What now?" asked he, fixing his pale blue eyes on the Billionaire's face. "Come in here, and I'll tell you." "Right!"
They had other and larger matters under way than any dealing with the amenities of life. Until past midnight the session in the study lasted, under the soft glow of the Billionaire's reading-light. And many choice cigars were smoked, many sheets of paper covered with diagrams and calculations, many vast schemes of conquest expanded, ere the two masters said good-night and separated.
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