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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.
You've been figgerin' from the start on smougin' me out of what I invested in that road, eh?... By the way, your stock's in your name. I'll git the certificates out of the safe." McKettrick shoved the envelope in his pocket. "The Seaboard Box and Paper Company will force you to remove your tracks from our land. I'll sue you for damages for your blunder.
What I doubt some is whether the word 'westerly' was there right from the start off of the beginnin'. In other words, it looks to me kind of as if McKettrick had done a mite of fixin' up to them documents. Rubbin' out and writin' in, so to speak." "Fiddlesticks!" said McKettrick. "Of course that is what you would charge."
Castle, with a smile which descended into great depths of disagreeability, "I own forty-nine per cent of the stock in this concern. I imagine I have a right to be here." "What's that? What's that?" McKettrick glared at Scattergood, who sat placidly removing his shoes. "Calc'late I'll relieve my feet," he said. "So I got you, too," McKettrick said to Castle. "I didn't figure on that luck."
While the negotiations regarding the railroad were being carried on, another matter arose to irritate Mr. McKettrick, and, in some measure, to take the keen edge off his attention. Scattergood usually endeavored to have some matter arise to irritate and distract when he was engaged on a major operation, and it was for this reason he had bought the four strips of land at Tupper Falls.
But seem's he's as he is, I calc'late I'm privileged to git what I kin git." Therefore Scattergood made it a clause in the contract that all the stock in the new railroad and construction company should remain in his own name until the road was completed and ready to operate. Then 49 per cent should be transferred to McKettrick.
"If our idees of the fairness of it agrees with one another." "Has McKettrick got to you first?" It was the information Scattergood wanted, but his dumplinglike face showed no sign of satisfaction. As a matter of fact, he did not know who McKettrick was but he could find out.
"Kind of got a bone to pick with McKettrick, eh?" "Maybe." "Tell you what I'll do," said Scattergood. "I'll sell you forty-nine per cent of the stock at a hunderd and twenty. Stock to stand in my name till the road's ready to operate, I don't want it known I've been sellin' any.... Shouldn't be s'prised if you was able to pick up control one way and another but I hain't goin' to sell it to you."
McKettrick put in his right of way at five thousand, an excessive figure, as Scattergood knew well, and gave his check for the balance of his 49 per cent. Scattergood deposited a check for his 51 per cent, or one hundred and two thousand dollars. Work was begun grading the right of way immediately.
McKettrick peered at Scattergood with awakened interest. His scrutiny told him nothing. "What backing have you?" "My own." McKettrick almost sneered. "Been lookin' me up?" asked Scattergood. "No." "Let's step to the bank." McKettrick followed Scattergood's bulky figure-wondering. In the bank Scattergood presented the treasurer. "Mr. Noble, meet Mr. McKettrick.
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