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"I am personally very grateful to him," said Mrs. Henry. And indeed so was the whole company. To be afflicted with Dr. MacBride for one night instead of six was a great liberation. But the Virginian never saw his sweetheart alone again; while she was at the Sunk Creek Ranch, his duties called him away so much that there was no chance for him.
Bannon was speaking deliberately, as if he were saying what he had thought out before. "Yes, a good deal. It's what I've mostly done since I quit the lumber business." "When Mr. MacBride was here," said Bannon, "he told me that we've got a contract for a new house at Indianapolis. It's going to be concrete, from the spiles up there ain't anything like it in the country.
"Got to!" exclaimed Pete. "I don't see it that way. We can't do it." "Can or can't, that don't interest MacBride a bit. He says it's got to be done and it has." "Why, he can't expect us to do it. He didn't say anything about January first to me. I didn't know it was a rush job. And then we played in hard luck, too, before you came. That cribbing being tied up, for instance.
To MacBride & Company, Minneapolis, Gentlemen: Cribbing is now going up on elevator and annex. A little over two feet remains to be done on the elevator beneath the distributing floor. The timber is ready for framing the cupola. Two hundred thousand feet of the Ledyard cribbing reached here by steamer last night, and the balance will be down in a few days. Very truly yours, MacBride & Company.
He studied it attentively for a while; then he sent a telegram: MACBRIDE & COMPANY, Minneapolis: G. & M. R. R. wants to tie us up. Will not furnish cars to carry our cribbing. Can't get it elsewhere inside of three weeks. If so, can they have one or more steam barges at Manistogee within forty-eight hours? Wire Ledyard Hotel. It was an hour's ride back to Ledyard.
I knew, once his decision taken of appointing the Virginian his lieutenant for good and all, that, like a wise commander-in-chief, he would trust his lieutenant to take care of his own business. "Well," Ogden pursued with interest, "haven't you landed Trampas plump at his mercy?" The phrase tickled the Judge. "That is where I've landed him!" he declared. "And here is Dr. MacBride."
You were unlucky, and a man working for MacBride can't afford to be unlucky; so he told me to come and finish the job. And once I was down here he held me responsible for getting it done. I've got to go ahead just the best I can. I thought you saw that at first, and that we'd get on all right together, but lately it's been different." "I thought I'd been working hard enough to satisfy anybody."
Bannon shook his head dubiously. "Well, I'm not sure " he began. But MacBride laughed, whereupon Bannon grinned in spite of himself. "All right," he said. It was no laughing matter, though, here on the job this Monday morning, and, once alone in the little section house, he shook his head again gravely. He liked Peterson too well, for one thing, to supersede him without a qualm.
On the twenty-second of November Bannon received this telegram: MR. CHARLES BANNON, care of MacBride & Company, South Chicago: We send today complete drawings for marine tower which you will build in the middle of spouting house. Harahan Company are building the Leg. MACBRIDE & Co. Bannon read it carefully, folded it, opened it and read it again, then tossed it on the desk.
You couldn't stump MacBride with anything. That's why he makes it so warm for us." "Do you think," she asked very demurely, indeed, "that if Mr. MacBride had been here he could have built it any faster than than we have, so far?" "I don't believe it," said Bannon, unwarily. Her smile told him that he had been trapped. "I see," he added. "You mean that there ain't any reason why we can't do it."
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