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"Don't you see how you are going to be hoisted with your own ammunition?" the little man went on spitefully. "What becomes of all your complaints of drunkenness and crime, when Mr. Colbrith can see with his own eyes what truly good people the MacMorroghs are? And what conclusion will he arrive at?
"My hundred and fifty miles of 'two streaks of rust and a right-of-way' has never paid a net dollar since the boom broke at Saint's Rest, and under present conditions it never will. If I had known the history of the road when President Colbrith went fishing for me as I didn't I wouldn't have touched the job with a ten-foot pole.
The track hazards of the mountain grade were safely passed. "Did any of the shots hit the car?" he asked of Penfield. "No." "Well, if you have to say anything before the ladies it might be advisable to make a joke of it. Signal torpedoes sound very much like pistol-shots, you know." Penfield nodded. "But to Mr. Colbrith?" "To Mr.
Also, that President Colbrith and his fellow-investors might very easily refuse to consider any other phase of the revolutionary proposition he was about to lay before them. By ten o'clock postponement was no longer a tenable city of refuge: the plunge had to be taken.
"No; we broke even, Grigsby and I. I have fifty per cent." The president groaned. "I I'll excuse you, Mr. Ford. Get down there at once and buy that other necessary share!" Ford shook his head with predetermined gloom. "No, Mr. Colbrith, I'm not buying any more mining stock. What I did buy seems to have cost me my job." "But, my dear young man! This is a crisis.
I merely did, on the ground, what thousands of investors in mining chances do the world over bought an interest in a mine without knowing or caring greatly into what particular mountain the mine tunnel was driven." Mr. Colbrith frowned. He was of that elder generation of masters which looked with cold disapproval upon any side ventures on the part of the subordinate.
What are we waiting for?" "Just at this present moment, for the contractors." "Why, I understood you had closed with the MacMorrogh Brothers," said Frisbie. "No. At the last moment to relieve me of a responsibility which might give rise to charges of favoritism, as he put it Mr. Colbrith took the bids out of my hands and carried the decision up to the executive committee.
"If you enlist him, you won't be sure of him; and if you don't, you'll merely leave an active opponent behind you instead of a passive one." "I guess you're right, Dick; but I'll have to be governed by conditions as I find them. Aside from North's influence with Mr. Colbrith, which is considerable, I believe, he can't do much to help. But he can do a tremendous lot to hinder.
President Colbrith, as yet, it appeared, in blissful ignorance of the latest news from New York, had reserved the seat of honor for his new assistant, and the half-hour was filled to overflowing with minute and cautionary definitions of the assistant's powers and duties. Ford listened with a blank ear on that side. There was work to do, and one man to do it.
"You don't know Mr. Colbrith as well as I do, I fancy," he suggested. "He is rather hard to suppress. He'll be president until his successor is elected or he'll know all the reasons why." "Well, I hope you've got everything straight in the option business," said Ford. "If there is so much as a hair displaced, he will be sure to find it." "It is all straight enough," was the confident rejoinder.
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