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"You've had experience with the other kind." "Counting the money we've already sunk, the road would stand us about twenty million dollars completed." "It will cost thirty to build from Cortez, and take two years longer." Mr. Heidlemann seemed to consider this for a moment.
"I'd really be sorry to take over the wreck of your enterprise," Heidlemann said, earnestly, "for you have made a good fight, and your ideas were better than ours. I'd much prefer to pay your price than to profit by your misfortune. Needless to say we don't feel that way about Gordon." "There would be no uncertainty about the bridge if I had the money.
You'll see how it has bound and gagged a wonderful country, and made loyal Americans into ragged, bitter traitors who would spit upon the flag they used to cherish." "Is that the only reason why you came along just to make sure that I saw all this?" "No. I want to look at the Heidlemann breakwater. My fortune hangs upon it." "It's as serious as that?" O'Neil shrugged. "I'm waiting for the wind.
"One million for me, one million for my associates." "What will the remaining hundred miles cost?" "About ten millions. That will give me another million profit as contractor. My force and equipment is on the ground. I can save you money and a year's time." Mr. Heidlemann drummed upon the top of his desk for a moment. "You're a high-priced man, O'Neil," he said, finally.
"You offered to complete it this winter, when you talked with Mr. Herman Heidlemann." "And I can." "Then we'll consider a reasonable price. But we must know definitely where we stand by next spring. We have a great deal of capital tied up in the interior; we can't wait." "This delay will cost you something." Mr. Blaine shrugged. "You made that point plain when you were in New York.
Beneath was the address of the Heidlemann building in New York, but otherwise the card told nothing. Something in Mr. Blaine's bearing, however, led Murray to treat him with more than ordinary consideration. "I should like to go over your work," the stranger announced; and O'Neil himself acted as guide.
Of course, the wires were burdened with the accounts; the reading public of the States awoke to the fact that a bitter strife was waging in the north between honest miners and the soulless Heidlemann syndicate. Gordon's previously written and carefully colored stories of the clash were printed far and wide. Stock subscriptions came in a deluge which fairly engulfed Gordon's Seattle office force.
I find railroads very troublesome at times." "Well, you're on time to the minute," said Heidlemann. "Now tell me about Kyak. Trevor cables that you were there during the storm which ruined us." The head of the copper syndicate did not look like a man facing ruin; in fact, he seemed more curious to hear of the physical phenomena of that hurricane than of its effect upon his fortunes.
"You can't understand how badly it needs it." "Yet it's a heavy load to carry," said Heidlemann, with conviction, "for a road will lose money for many years. We were willing to wait until the agriculture and the mining developed, even though the profit came only to our children; but we have been misunderstood, abused by the press and the public. Even Congress is down on us.
"I don't see how it can be built to withstand the ice." "I'll guarantee to build it so it will hold." "What is your proposition?" asked Heidlemann. "I'll sell the S.R.&N. for five million dollars and contract to complete the road within two years on a ten-per-cent commission." "It has cost you about three million dollars, I believe. That would leave you a handsome profit."
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