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Updated: May 11, 2025
Snell, you go and talk to those Danburg men like a father to children. Send them in here smoothed down and we'll do the right thing by them." He signaled for Briggs and told him to admit Dr. Dohl. The doctor, chairman of the State Board of Health, was a chubby man with a tow-colored, fan-shaped beard. He sat down and sprung his eye-glasses on his bulgy nose and drew out a package of manuscript.
There are a lot of soreheads in this state, and we're having a devil of a time to hold 'em in line. Every savings-bank in this state, furthermore, holds bonds of the Consolidated. Do you want to start a panic? You've got to be careful how you touch the first brick standing in a row. Dohl, you leave that report with me. I'll go over it. I'll take the matter up with the directors.
He departed from the Presence, muttering his rebellion, but fully conscious that a political Samson in modern days made but a sorry spectacle of himself when he started to pull down the pillars of the party temple. He continued to mutter when he walked through the anteroom. Most of the men who waited there had faces as lowering as the visage which Dr. Dohl displayed.
You'll only scare the banks and set the cranks to yapping. Just remember that you're a state officer and have a weighty responsibility to your party and to financial interests." Dr. Dohl went away. He sourly realized that he was only a cog in the big machine; that for a moment he had threatened to develop a rough edge and start a squeak, but the big file had been used on him.
The stranger was a tall young man with wavy hair and brown eyes. He sat patiently, nursing a broad-brimmed black hat on his knees. "I'd like to see that man!" repeated Dr. Dohl, mentally, sugar-coating his disgust at his own weakness. If mortal man were gifted with prescience Dr.
Dohl would have stared out of countenance the tall young man who sat on a bench in the outer office of the state's overlord and nursed a broad-brimmed hat upon his knees. "I appreciate zeal in public affairs," mused Colonel Dodd, gazing at the door which Dr. Dohl had closed behind him. "But once there was a retriever dog who chased his master with a stick of dynamite that had a sputtering fuse."
"I am told that a lunatic almost broke up our city government meeting the other night, shouting that the Consolidated is trying to poison folks. You're too level-headed a man to get into that class, Dr. Dohl." "I'll allow you to set me down in any class which seems fitting from your point of view," replied the doctor, stiffly.
"No, sir not for all of them." "Why blame us for any of them? Our analyses show that we're giving clean water. How about dirty milkmen and the sanitary arrangements in these tenement-houses and all such? It's the fashion to blame a corporation for everything bad that happens in this world." "We have placed blame on milkmen where any blame is due," stated Dr. Dohl. He tapped his manuscript.
"Look here, Dohl, don't you remember that it was my indorsement that gave you your job?" "I do, Colonel Dodd. But I'm a physician, not a politician." "I see you're not," retorted the colonel, dryly. "But you're a member of our political party, and you know that the Consolidated and its associate interests are the backbone of that party.
"Seventeen, Colonel Dodd. Five for real business; twelve of them are sponges." "The five?" "Chief Engineer Snell of the Consolidated, Dr. Dohl of the State Board of Health, the three promoters of the Danburg Village Water system." "Send in Snell." Engineer Snell did not sit in the presence of his president, nor did the president ask him to sit. "Briggs tells me the Danburg men are here."
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