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Colbrith had been won over; the authority given Ford by his appointment as assistant to the president had been annulled by making North the first vice-president with still higher authority.
Part of the time it seemed to Ford that it was clearly his duty to make this fight against the grafters in the Denver management. North deserved no consideration, and while Mr. Colbrith was honest enough, his blind prejudice and narrow mentality made him North's unwitting accessory.
Colbrith went over it last night because well, because he believes it to be a presidential duty to inspect everything. If you leave to-day, you will probably meet the Nadia coming out possibly at Saint's Rest." Adair suddenly became wary. "Perhaps that would be the easy thing to do," he said. "I suppose the engineers at Saint's Rest could put me up if I have to stay over night?"
"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.
For one thing, President Colbrith insisted upon learning the minutest ins and outs of the business matter, making the table-talk his vehicle; and for another, Miss Adair's place was on the opposite side of the table, and two removes from Ford's.
Three months earlier Ford would not have hesitated; but in the interval a woman had come between to obscure all the points of view. A fight to the death against the Colbrith administration meant the antagonizing of the Adairs of Alicia, at least. True, she had spoken lightly of her uncle's peculiarities; but Ford made sure she would stand by him in the conflict, if only for kinship's sake.
Colbrith wasn't the chief of your family clan, Adair, I could wish that we had this Mr. Brewster at the head of things." The rejoinder was heartily prompt. "You don't wish it any more fervently than I do, Ford. That is why I am here to-day.
It's it's simply preposterous! I must really decline to discuss it any further." Ford had his packet of data in hand. "I have all the exhibits here, carefully tabulated and condensed. Won't you reconsider far enough to examine them, Mr. Colbrith?" A thin white hand of negation and protest waved out of the depths of the engulfing easy-chair. "I am sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Ford.
A good many of his investments were palpably bad; and they could be recouped only by the backing of the combination. And the combination obstinately refused to combine unless the Little Alicia could be gathered in. At the end of the ends Mr. Colbrith appealed to his nephew. "You know where Ford is," he began accusingly. "You needn't deny it.
Colbrith, this strike is the biggest thing that has happened in the mining world since the discovery of the wedge-veins in Cripple Creek!" The president shrugged his thin shoulders as one whose mission in life is to be sturdily conservative after all the remainder of mankind has struck hands with frenzied optimism. "Nonsense!" he rasped contemptuously. "What happens?
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