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"And of me," laughed the enthusiast. But in spite of the cold comfort, and of the still colder promise of opposition, he took his leave with a lighter heart, refusing Mr. Colbrith's rather perfunctory invitation to stay to luncheon. And on the gravelled drive, where he again had to make way for the auto-car purring in on its return, he did not so much as look up at the pair in the driving-seat.
"To be brutally candid, I had a decided attack of the 'unwelcomes' when I received Mr. Colbrith's wire announcing his intention of bringing his picnic party out here into the midst of things. We have little time, and none of the civilized conveniences, for entertaining company." "I think we all understand that," she made haste to say.
Colbrith, en route, appeared in the passageway to say that Ford was wanted in the president's state-room. "Well, Mr. Ford, what are we waiting for?" was the querulous demand which served as Mr. Colbrith's greeting when Ford presented himself at the door of the private compartment. Ford's reply lacked the deferential note.
"It's a comfort to know that you are the big boss, Stuart. North can't knock you out of that when it comes to a show-down." "I don't know," said Ford, whose night ride had made him pessimistic. "I am Mr. Colbrith's appointee, you know not an elected officer. And what Mr. Colbrith has done, he may be induced to undo.
Colbrith's principles to let a man off with a single rebuttal. "I am not at all convinced of the worth of these new-fangled ideas, Mr. Ford; not at all. We built the Pacific Southwestern main line in the old, approved way a rail at a time with less than one-quarter of the men you have over there." "I don't question it: and you were three years building some six hundred miles in a prairie country.
Three days later, however, when Frisbie was half-way to Saint's Rest with his preliminary track-swinging, another New York telegram found Ford in his newly established quarters in the Guaranty Building. This was from some one acting as President Colbrith's secretary, and its wording was concisely mandatory. Contract has been awarded MacMorrogh Brothers.
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