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Venable about how well her costume became her, she passed on out of the box. "Who is that?" asked Montague. "That," the Major answered, "that's Laura Hegan Jim Hegan's daughter." "Oh!" said Montague, and caught his breath. Jim Hegan Napoleon of finance czar of a gigantic system of railroads, and the power behind the political thrones of many states. "His only daughter, too," the Major added.
"I felt sure that you could explain it, if anybody could," said he. "But what is there to explain?" asked the other. "It simply means that Jim Hegan is interested in your railroad. What more could you want?" "But he sent a detective after me!" gasped Montague. "But that's all right," said the Major. "It is done every day. There are a half dozen big agencies that do nothing else.
These thoughts were seething in Montague's mind, and they would not let him rest. Perhaps it was just as well that he did not stay too long that evening. After all, what was the use? Jim Hegan was what circumstances had made him. Vain was the dream of peace and well doing there was always another rival!
One day, while Montague was still trembling with the pain of his experience, he was walking up the Avenue, and he met Laura Hegan coming from a shop to her carriage. "Mr. Montague," she exclaimed, and stopped with a frank smile of greeting. "How are you?" "I am well," he answered. "I suppose," she added, "you have been very busy these terrible days."
He saw Jim Hegan come and enter the elevator, in company with an elderly man whom he recognised as Bascom, the president of the Empire Bank, Waterman's own institution.
Surely there must come doubt and wonder, unhappiness and loneliness! Surely, then, the lives that he had wrecked must come back to plague him! Surely the memories of treachery and cruelty must make him wince! And from Hegan, Montague's thoughts went to his daughter. She, too, was serene and stately; Montague wondered what was in her mind. How much did she know about her father's career?
Even the proudest and most defiant men, like Wyman and Hegan, took his orders and listened humbly to his tirades. All these events were public history, and one might follow them day by day in the newspapers. Waterman's earlier acts had been planned and carried out in darkness. No one knew, no one had the faintest suspicion.
And then along comes a guileless young fool with a little dinky railroad which he wants to run into the Company's back door-yard; and he takes the proposition to Jim Hegan!" The Major arrived at his climax in a state of suppressed emotion, which culminated in a chuckle, which shook his rubicund visage and brought a series of twitches to his aching toe. As for Montague, he was duly humbled.
I'll be at the hotel in a little while, and since I'm not going a step into the office again, bring all papers to sign and the rest over to my rooms. And you can get me on the 'phone there any time. This smash is going through. Savvee? I'm quit and done." He stood up as a sign for Hegan to go. The latter was plainly stunned. He also rose to his feet, but stood looking helplessly around.
He caught her by the hand and drew her to him. "You let Hegan hang on to that line till he's tired. We can't be wasting a second on him on a day like this. He's only in love with books and things, but I've got a real live woman in my arms that's loving me all the time she's kicking over the traces." "But I know something of the fight you have been making," Dede contended.
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