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The gentlemen retire to the tower and discuss business over cigars, and the result is an offer for all right and title to the interest of Grandon & Co. left by James Grandon to his family, and for Mr. St. Vincent's patent. The last is so liberal that Floyd accepts at once; the rest must be considered by the parties concerned, but it has the consent and advice of Floyd Grandon and Mr. Connery.
"It does not seem to me that father would have made just such a will if he had not believed it equitable or possible. I shall ask Connery to call a meeting to-morrow or as soon as possible. When does this note fall due?" "I really do not know. I told you Wilmarth looked out for those things," he says impatiently. "Have you any clear idea about the new patent? Is it really worth working?
Connery; that his interest, such as it was and he couldn't look quite like that, to Julia Bride's expert perception, without something in the nature of a new one would be a thousand times different.
It was really a little too melodramatic. The village lassie goes to the great city; her father and mother arrive in all their bucolic innocence just in time to save her from destruction. Connery, whose climax she had spoiled, though she had probably saved his bones, gasped, "Who the hell are you?" "I'm this child's mother; that's who I am. And that's her father.
It was the night when we were going home, and neighbor Connery gave us a ride on his new bob down that splendid hill, the whole board, men and women, that I judged him for what he really was that resolute leg out behind that kept us on our course as straight as a die, rounding every log and reef with the skill of a river pilot, never flinching once.
When he had finished his story he said, "Now, of course this all comes out very convenient for you, but I suppose you see how easy it would be for me to tell what I know, and that mightn't be so convenient for you." "Are you beginning your blackmail again so early in the morning?" "Cut out that kind of talk or there's nothing doing," said Connery.
They were like childish actors in a juvenile production at five pins per admission. An unexpected line threw them into complete disorder. Connery turned to Gilfoyle. "Did you ever lamp this old lady before?" Gilfoyle answered, stoutly enough, "I never laid eyes on her." Connery was about to order Mrs. Thropp out of the room as an impostor, but she would not be denied her retort.
He has deputed Connery to find him some efficient mechanician to go over the factory and see what can be done. Surely Wilmarth cannot oppose anything for their united interest, unless, indeed, he means to ruin if he cannot rule. There is a misgiving in Floyd's mind that he is purposely allowing everything to depreciate with a view of getting it cheaply into his own hands.
It may be that Wilmarth's influence is not a good thing for a young man. How has his father been so blinded? "That man is a villain," Connery had said when they left the factory. "It will be war between you, and you had better get him out if it is possible." Floyd sighs now, thinking of all the perplexities. What is Mr. St. Vincent like? Will there be trouble in this direction as well?
He disliked that noisy approach because it would command notice; and publicity, as he well knew, is death to blackmail. Connery adopted a familiar stratagem of the private detectives. He went to the apartment one day when he knew that Kedzie was out, and inquired for an alleged sister of his who had worked for Kedzie. He claimed to be a soldier on furlough.
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