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His twenty thousand dollars invested in P. S-W. stock at twenty-nine and a half had grown with the rising market to sixty-odd. What did it matter to any one if he chose to put ten thousand of the sixty-odd on a turn of the Little Alicia card? While it was gambling, pure and simple, he did not bet with his eyes shut. Inquiry at the Bank of Copah established Grigsby's reputation for truth-telling.
"They may go on burning them," said Adair calmly. "Uncle Sidney isn't going to quit until he owns a good half of the Copah district or gets his armature burned out. And if he were ready to quit, we shouldn't let him. But how are things working out on the extension? that is what interests me." "Bully!" was the enthusiastic reply.
There'll be a stampede, with every laborer on the line hoofing it for Copah. Good-by, sweetheart, and may I?" He took her face between his hands and did it anyhow. Five minutes later he was bargaining for a saddle horse at the one livery stable in the camp, offering and paying the selling price of the animal for the two days' hire.
"That's bully for us," quoth the first assistant. "But, all the same, we shouldn't stop at Copah, this fall." "We shall not stop at Copah," was the decisive rejoinder. "The winters on the western side of the range are much milder than they are here, and not to be spoken of in the same day with your Minnesota and Dakota stamping-ground.
And on the railroad conditions I have named, I am quite sure he will make you his voting proxy if you want to use it in forcing the combine." The president took a turn as far as the clerk's counter and back. The lobby was deserted, everybody having gone to welcome the first train into Copah. "You seem to have North against the wall," he said when he came back.
The matter to be taken up with McCloskey, master of trains and chief of the telegraph department, was not altogether disciplinary. In the summarizing conference at Copah, Vice-President Ford had spoken favorably of the trainmaster, recommending him to mercy in the event of a general beheading in the Angels head-quarters.
"When Uncle Sidney crooks his finger at you, you'll climb up obediently beside him and let him scold you all the way over to Copah." "Wait and see," said Ford; and then he said good night, not as he wanted to, but as he must, with Aunt Hester sitting within arm's reach.
Bradford was not of any faction of discontent, but the spirit of morose insubordination, born of the late change in management, was in the air, and he spoke gruffly. Hence, with the flint and steel thus provided, the spark was promptly evoked. "Were the boxes properly overhauled before you left Copah?" demanded the new boss.
Yet here and there in the newspaper record there is mention of one Stuart Ford, "our rising young railroad magnate," in the unashamed phrase of the Copah Megaphone, first as the president's assistant; later, as first vice-president and general manager of the system, in the Chicago headquarters, with Mr. Richard Frisbie as his second in command on the western lines, and Mr.
Colbrith thrust out a thin lip of obstinate determination. "And if he does, your hypothetical rush will simply have to wait, Mr. Ford. We have the key to the Copah door." "Don't you fool yourself!" snapped Ford, forgetting his rôle of the humble one for the moment. "The Transcontinental is only forty miles away at Jack's Canyon, with a pretty decent stage road.
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