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Updated: June 2, 2025
Gretzinger laughed at him and so did I, for we knew it couldn't be true. But it's bothering you, I see; your face is anxious. I hope you'll clear up the horrid matter, whatever it is, while you're gone." Then after a pause, she remarked, "Perhaps Mr. Gretzinger could be of assistance to you." "Not in this matter," said Lee. "He has a great deal of influence, especially in the East."
Strange the idea never occurred to you before you, Gretzinger, irrigation expert, though you never saw an irrigation ditch till you came West. The sixty thousand dollars from bonds and twenty thousand more I've put with it will be gone sometime next month. Possibly I can stretch it out to the first of February. After that, the bondholders will have to come forward to save their investment."
Oh, you mean the first contract to construct the ditch in a year! We tore that up after he got notice from the Land and Water Board." "Well, we'll continue the oral arrangement." "Not any more," said Pat. Gretzinger inspected the coal of his cigarette, replaced the latter between his lips, and glanced at Bryant.
However, Lee, I shall always be your friend. It may interest you to know that this evening Mr. Gretzinger and I are to be married. Privately, with only a few close friends. We depart immediately after the ceremony for New York. Mr. Menocal is to pack my things at Sarita Creek, so you need not bother about them.
"The amount of the face of both bonds and stock, with interest on the former to date," he answered quickly. "I buy only bargains," was Carrigan's dry statement. "One hundred thousand then." "You're still sailing way up in the clouds. The stock was a bonus, Gretzinger; it cost your parties nothing. So it's only the bonds that count.
"Well, it's a comfort to know that we don't have to plug again at that ground in the morning," Lee remarked, with a sigh of satisfaction. He had his feet on the table, his body relaxed, and his pipe going. "Yeah. The only disappointment I have," Pat said, "is not having lifted the bonds and stocks out of Gretzinger.
I know how these state officers run things. Leave it to me; I'll arrange the matter." "Not with my consent. And he'll never grant the change over my opposition." Gretzinger gave his knee an angry slap. "I tell you it must be different, Bryant. In addition to the bonds my men have their share of stock. They consider this stock bonus as part of their investment. It is.
Meanwhile Lee, under relentless pressure of work, saw less and less of Ruth. She had come a number of times at the beginning of the drive, sometimes with Gretzinger, sometimes with Imogene, to watch the feverish spectacle on the mesa; as had Louise Graham, her father, and at rare intervals Mr. McDonnell.
"No, you can't leave me out of your calculations," said Bryant, grimly. "You see now, I hope, why it's to your interest as well as ours to make the change I suggest," Gretzinger continued. "It will equal the amount of the discount. In a year or so we'll all be out from under with bonds and stock liquidated dollar for dollar.
"Don't you see that rain coming? Imo and I want to reach home, Mr. Gretzinger, without being soaked." Bryant's companion waved an assuring hand without ceasing his rapid and forceful statement addressed to his fellow. Half a head shorter than Lee, he was of stockier build, a man somewhere near thirty-five or six years of age, with hair tinged with gray above his ears.
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