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Crawford must not be robbed!" "Stop, Andrew!" said Alexa. "Everything in the next room was left to my cousin, with the library in this; whatever else was left him was individually described. The cup was not in the next room, and was not mentioned. Providence has left us to do with it as we may judge right. I think it ought to be taken to Borland Hall and by Dawtie." "Well!
"Of course, there was Borland himself," answered Winslow. "Then there was a young chemist named Lathrop, a very clever and ambitious fellow who succeeded Cushing when he resigned from the works, and Dr. Harris, who was persuaded to go because of his friendship for Borland. After they took up the concession I believe all of them put money into it, though how much I can't say."
"Where are the papers in the case, the documents showing the application for the patent, for instance?" asked Kennedy. "In the safe, sir," replied Strong. Strong set to work on the combination which he had obtained from the safe deposit vault. I could see that Borland and Miss Winslow were talking in a low tone. "Are you sure that it is a fact?"
Borland, finding no more congressional faces to smash in Washington from which city it was considered General Pierce had removed an intolerable perplexity by sending him to foreign parts had been recompensed by the smashing of his own, in Central America, where he had raised a tolerable sort of a breeze. He, too, must be thrown in.
"I haven't looked into the case very deeply, but I'm not so sure that he had the secret, are you?" Kennedy smiled. "That is what I'd like to know. I suppose that an expert like Mr. Borland could tell me, perhaps?" "I should think so." "Where is his office?" asked Craig. "Could you point it out to me from the window?"
I wish you'd step to the other window and raise it, so that I can be sure. I don't want to go wandering all over the works looking for him." "Yes," the doctor said as he went, leaving him standing beside the window from which he had been directing us, "yes, you surely should see Mr. Borland.
At this news the Prince was both puzzled and alarmed. "What are we to do?" he asked of the tutor; but Borland was unable to suggest a remedy. Then said the aged Chamberlain, coming forward, and bowing low before the little King, "Your Majesty, I think I can assist you in your difficulty.
"Who," asked Kennedy, "was chiefly interested in the rubber works where Cushing was formerly employed?" "The president of the company is the Mr. Borland whom I mentioned," replied Mr. Winslow. "He is a man of about forty, I should say, and is reputed to own a majority of the "
Just then a long-distance call from Winslow told us that Borland had been to call on Miss Ruth and, in as kindly a way as could be, had offered her half a million dollars for her rights in the new patent. At once it flashed over me that he was trying to get control of and suppress the invention in the interests of his own company, a thing that has been done hundreds of times.
"Your Lord Chamberlain is wrong, sire," returned the Prince; "my tutor, Borland, and I have talked with many of these beggars the past few days, and we find the tithes and taxes which have enriched you have taken the bread from their wives and children." "So!" exclaimed the King. "We must examine into this matter."
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