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McKettrick awoke suddenly to find that his men had not secured the site for his mills, and that, apparently, it could not be secured. He discussed the thing with Scattergood. "Prob'ly some old scissor bills that got a notion of hangin' on to their land," Scattergood said. "It can't be that, for the sales to the present owners were recent. The new owners refuse absolutely to sell."
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.
The meeting was held in the shabby hotel which Scattergood patronized. McKettrick was there with his attorney, Scattergood was there with Johnnie Bones and last came President Castle. At his entrance McKettrick scowled and leaped to his feet. "What do you want here?" he demanded. "Well," said Mr.
"Take it," said Wangen, "or leave it." "You've got to have it," Scattergood whispered. McKettrick spluttered and stormed and pleaded, but Wangen was firm and gave but one answer. There could be but one result: McKettrick wrote a check for fifteen thousand dollars and still had one strip to buy a strip not at an edge of his mill site, but bisecting it.
"McKettrick," said Scattergood, "did you figger I'd take notes in lead pencil on my cuff of where I was to build that railroad? Did you figger I was goin' to lay down a railroad without knowin' the place I put it was where it b'longed? Castle he knows me better 'n you, and he wouldn't guess I'd do sich a thing. No, sir, Mr. McKettrick.
This strip caused the worry when Scattergood needed attention distracted the most. But Scattergood managed finally to secure it for McKettrick for seventy-five hundred dollars. Thus it will be seen how Scattergood resorted to the law of necessity, and how McKettrick suffered from failure to build securely his commercial structure from its foundation.
"Got me? I'm interested." McKettrick explained at length, and, as he explained, Castle glared at him, and then at Scattergood, with increasing rage. As he saw it there was a plot between Scattergood and McKettrick to get him and he appeared to have been gotten. He started to speak, but Scattergood stopped him. "Jest a minute, Mr. Castle," he said. "'Tain't time for you to cuss yet.
That afternoon Johnnie Bones carried President Castle's 49 per cent of the railroad's stock to the G. & B. offices, and gave them into the hands of the railroad's chief executive. "Mr. Baines will be here to-morrow. There will be a meeting at his hotel at three o'clock. McKettrick will be there." "I'll come," said President Castle.
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.
"I'll take it off your hands at a fair figure." "'Tain't layin' heavy on my hands," said Scattergood. "How much did it cost you?" "A heap less 'n I'll sell for.... You hain't mentioned your name." "McKettrick." Scattergood nodded. "I'd sell to a man of that name." "How much?" "One million dollars," said Scattergood. "You're you're crazy," said McKettrick.
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