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"Johnny was doing an excellent business in real estate speculation when this man Collaton came to him with an enormous irrigation scheme. They formed a partnership. Collaton went out West to superintend the reclaiming of some thousands of acres of arid land, while Johnny stayed here to sell rose-bordered farms to romantic city home seekers.
In the afternoon to the Fishery, where, very confused and very ridiculous, my Lord Craven's proceedings, especially his finding fault with Sir J. Collaton and Colonell Griffin's' report in the accounts of the lottery-men. Thence I with Mr. Gray in his coach to White Hall, but the King and Duke being abroad, we returned to Somersett House.
And, turning just then toward the grandstand, he smiled up into one of the boxes and lifted his hat. Glancing in that direction, Gamble was shocked to find himself looking squarely into the dark eyes of a strikingly beautiful young woman who stood with her hands resting upon the rail. "What do you know about Collaton?" he asked; and, in spite of himself, he looked again.
"I tried my best to scare Courtney away from him with that attachment, but he insisted on clinging to his Johnny Gamble; so we'll hand him enough of Johnny by laying a fifty-thousand-dollar attachment against his property." "You're a funny cuss," said Collaton, puzzled. "If you wanted to soak him for this fifty thousand why did you try to scare Courtney off?"
"I don't know," hesitated Collaton with a shake of his head "I only touched the high places in the actual work out there. I believe I was a sucker at that, Gresham. If I had buckled down to it, like Gamble does, we could have made a fortune out of that scheme. He's a wonder!" "He has wonderful luck," corrected Gresham.
"That's what you said before," retorted Collaton, his eyebrows and lashes even more invisible in this illumination than in broad day-light. "It's time, though, for a showdown. You drag me into dark corners and talk over schemes to throw the hooks into Johnny Gamble and I tell you I'm afraid of him!" "You're mistaken," asserted Gresham dryly. "It was I who told you that you were afraid of him."
On Riverside Drive, Loring spent the first fifteen minutes in extolling the virtues of his car and Constance listened with patient attention; but during the first convenient silence she surprised Loring with a bit of crisp business talk. "Would you mind telling me the history of Mr. Gamble's partnership with Mr. Collaton?" she asked.
"Then you won't take any part in the enterprise?" "Not any," Collaton assured him with a wave of negation. "If Johnny will let me alone I'll let him alone, and be glad of the chance." Later, Gresham saw Johnny come back and speak to Heinrich Schnitt; but he had no curiosity about it.
"Wait a minute, Miss Parsons," he protested. "Mr. Gamble, you manage very nicely without Mr. Collaton. If you knew of a probable purchaser for my property you have just taken a most unethical advantage of me." "You didn't have your fingers crossed," Gamble serenely reminded him. "Not once," corroborated Polly. "I watched him all the time. Just leave the colonel to me, Johnny.
It was three o'clock before he found Collaton; and that featureless young man, whose lack of visible eyebrows and lashes was a constant annoyance to the fastidious Gresham, was in a high state of elation. "Well, we get back your fifteen thousand," he exulted after they were safely in Gresham's apartments.
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