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"Injunctions, and other matters," observed Quarrier. "Is anybody going to lose any money in it?" "Who, for example?" "Why you, for example," she said, laughing. "I don't expect to." "Then it is going to turn out all right? And Mr. Plank and Kemp Ferrall and the major and the other people interested, are not going to be almost ruined by the Inter-County people?"
"Business," said Siward. But, being a Siward, he was obliged to add "partly." "Business partly," repeated the doctor. "What's the matter with business partly?" "I don't know. There are rumours. Hetherington is pounding us apparently. That Inter-County crowd is acting ominously, too. There's something underhand, somewhere."
She thought a moment, putting aside for the time his manner, which she could not comprehend; then: "I wanted to ask you a question a rather ignorant one, perhaps. It's about your Amalgamated Electric Company. May I ask it, Howard?" After a second's stare, "Certainly," he said. "It's only this: If the other people the Inter-County, I mean are slowly ruining Amalgamated, why don't you stop it?"
"I mean, for you and me to try to understand each other." "For us?" asked Plank, raising his blond eyebrows. "Do you mean Amalgamated Electric and Inter-County, impersonally?" "I mean for us, personally." "There is no way," said Plank, with conviction. "I think there is." "You are wasting time thinking it, Mr. Quarrier."
"As a matter of fact," he said, "a little cold logic shows us that Quarrier isn't in it at all. No sane man would ruin his own enterprise, when there is no need to. His people are openly supporting Amalgamated and hammering Inter-County; and, besides, there's Ferrall in it, and Mrs.
If Plank suspected him, he must also suspect him of complicity in the Inter-County grab; he must suspect him of the ruthless crushing power that corrupts or annihilates opposition, making a mockery of legislation, a jest of the courts, and an epigram of a people's indignation.
The grief and amazement of Major Belwether, already distracted by his non-participation, through his own fault, in Plank's consolidation of Amalgamated with Inter-County, was pitiable to the verge of the unpleasant.
You requested this meeting," said Plank, yawning. "Certainly. I recollect it perfectly now. Will you sit here, Mr. Plank for a moment " "If it concerns Inter-County, it will take longer than a moment unless you cannot spare the time now," said Plank. "Shall we call it off?" "As a matter of fact I am rather short of time just now." "Then let us postpone it.
In the meanwhile, Siward's new duties as second vice-president of Inter-County had given him scant leisure for open-air convalescence.
There was no hope for rural counties with small tax duplicates, the ones in greatest need of good roads never being able to lift themselves out of the mud except through liberal state aid. One of the Governor's first acts was a survey of road conditions. A complete network of 10,000 miles of inter-county roads was mapped out. It connected the eighty-eight county seats.
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