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It was not like a man of McKettrick's character unless there were an object. Once or twice Scattergood encountered President Castle of the G. & B. while the road was building. "Hear you're putting in a logging road for McKettrick," he said. "For me," said Scattergood. "Stock stands in my name. Calculate to operate it myself." "Oh!" said Castle, and drummed with his fingers on the window ledge.
This was the beginning of some weeks of negotiations, during which Scattergood became convinced that McKettrick was wishful of using him so long as he proved useful; then, when the day arrived for a showing of profit on the profit sheet, the same McKettrick was planning to see that no profit would be there and that Scattergood Baines should be eliminated from consideration to McKettrick's profit in the sum of whatever amount Scattergood invested in the construction of the railroad.
Maybe you won't git to do no reg'lar cussin' a-tall. You see, McKettrick he up and made a little error himself. Regardin' me makin' an error. Yass.... I don't calc'late to make errors costin' upward of a hunderd thousand. No.... Not," he said, "that I got any doubts about the word 'westerly' appearin' in all the papers McKettrick's got regardin' this enterprise.
This McKettrick regarded as a harmless eccentricity of the lamb he was about to fleece. The new company was organized with Johnnie Bones as president, Scattergood as treasurer, an employee of McKettrick's as secretary, and Mandy Baines and another employee of McKettrick's as the remaining two directors.
Scattergood said nothing. "Own the right of way?" asked Castle. "'Tain't precisely a right of way," said Scattergood. "It's a easement, or property right, or whatever the lawyers would call it, to run tracks over any part of McKettrick's property and operate a loggin' railroad where McKettrick says he wants to get logs from." "No definite right of way?" "Jest what I described."
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