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Silence for a time until Blount broke in upon Gantry's tapping of the dance-music rhythm with: "If I can close up a few unfinished business matters and get ready I may go with you, Dick. Would you mind?" "Yes; I should mind so much that I'd willingly miss a train or so and worry out a few more of the chilly Boston hours rather than lose the chance of having you along."
And if you and he don't come down within the next few days yes, it's a matter of days, now I'll fire myself and go over every foot of the ground again, telling what I know." Gantry's eyes darkened. He had graduated with honors from the particular department in railroading in which patience is more than a virtue. Yet there are limits.
By all odds it would be better to wait for Gantry's report before taking any irrevocable steps in the bargaining with Evan Blount's father; but unhappily the crisis had arrived, and in all probability it could not be postponed. None the less, the vice-president tried craftily for the postponement. "You're asking a good deal, Blount, and you don't seem to realize it.
"What was the effect, son?" "At first, it made me want to throw up the fight and run away to the ends of the earth. It seemed as if I didn't have anybody to turn to. You were in it, and Gantry was in it and Gantry's superiors and mine. That evening I borrowed one of your cars and drove out to Wartrace. I meant to have it out with you, and then to throw up my hands and quit."
You are reasonably sure that you haven't been recognized here by any of our local people?" "I've kept the 'make-up' on most of the time. I've been in Mr. Gantry's office a couple of times, and in Mr. Kittredge's once, and neither of them caught on to me." "That's good. You'd better go now. O'Brien has gone after Gantry and Kittredge, and I don't care to have them find you here.
Now, you know, we desire to reach Mrs. Gantry's as soon as possible." "Yes, we do!" growled Blake. He seemed more than ever determined to remain in his glum mood, and the pleasant badinage of his friend during their run out to Lincoln Park Boulevard rather increased than lessened his surliness.
"That is good of you, I'm sure. I should bore myself to death if I had to travel alone." Blount's rejoinder might have passed for a mere friendly commonplace if it had not been for the rather curiously worded telegram. But it was a goodly portion of Gantry's business in life to put two and two together, and that phrase in the senator's message about a woman's apron-string interested him.
I'm going to buck through this little proposition in one-two-three style, grab my fifty thousand, and plunge into the New York Four Hundred as Tommy Van Damdam. Clear out, you hobos. I'm going to work!" "Don't forget I've got you on for lunch and Mrs. Gantry's," reminded Lord James. Blake paused, pencil in hand. "Aw, say, Jimmy, you'll have to let me off now." "Can't do it, old man, really."
Arranging with the Pullman conductor to have his hand-luggage left in Gantry's office at the capital, the man in search of his boyhood crossed quickly to a livery-stable opposite the station, bargained for a saddle-horse, borrowed a poncho and a pair of leggings, and prepared to break violently, for the moment at least, with all the civilized traditions.
Kittredge trying to find him, too?" "Yes. And I think Kittredge played it rather low down on the poor beggar. They had a deal of some sort, and when Gryson put his price on the job " "I know," she interrupted. "Mr. Kittredge ought to have paid him and let him go." Gantry's smile was a tribute to superior genius. "You've got me going," he said; "you always have me going.
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