Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 26, 2025
"With your boss, if you want to know; with Mr. McVickar himself!" "And you think you can do it again?" "I know damned well I can; only I don't care to go over your head unless I have to. They tell me you're handling this end of it for the railroad company, and I'm not going around hunting a chance to make enemies.
"Did you take up with him the matter of issuing new tariffs to do away with the preferentials, or to level the public rates down to them?" Gantry shifted uneasily in his chair, and tried to evade. "There was very little time," he said. "Mr. McVickar was in a great hurry, and his special was held only a few minutes." Blount crossed the room and sat down.
He saw that I wasn't going to fall in with the attorney-general scheme; or perhaps he saw that I might be a stumbling-block if I should; so he planned this thing with McVickar planned it deliberately! There is no fight, after all; it's merely one of the moves in the game that the 'boss' and the railroad should seem to be fighting each other. Good God!
He didn't want Evan to get in too deep in the righteousness puddle, and he took that way of letting him get a peek at the real thing. It was overdone, though; horribly overdone. Confound it all! I wish Mr. McVickar would loosen up a little more with me! If he'd tell me a few of the things I ought to know "
"I want to know how much you'll take to clean up right where you are and make my boy's word good to the people of this State." Mr. McVickar turned to his table-desk and took up a sheaf of telegrams. "I'm a pretty busy man this evening, David; and if you haven't anything better than that to offer "
They made themselves generally agreeable, assisting in the entertaining; passing tea and sandwiches with ease and aplomb. Mr. Williams kept the seat next to Blue Bonnet and Hammie McVickar dropped down on the other side of her. "First visit here?" Mr. Williams asked, trying to successfully balance his ice-cream and cake on one knee.
Blue Bonnet looked as if she didn't quite understand. "But Sue, can we go? Will Miss North let us?" "Oh, yes with Mrs. White. Why not? You're not doing penance for anything are you?" "No, certainly not! But it seems quite unusual; going off with a lot of boys like that." "A lot of boys! There's only Billy, and Hammie McVickar, and an escort for me Billy doesn't say what his name is.
Of the interview between the father and the son, in which Evan announced his intention of accepting a place under McVickar, nothing was said in the newspapers, for the very good reason that no reporter was present. If the young man who had so summarily taken his future into his own hands was anticipating a storm of disapproval and opposition, he was disappointed. He had seen Mr.
McVickar has ever turned loose on this side of the big mountains. It grinds, Evan, but it's the fact. Not one of the men you are after has ever taken your speeches seriously." Blount's head sank lower. "I'm smashed, Dick!" he groaned; "utterly and irretrievably disgraced and discredited in my native State! There isn't a man in the sage-brush hills who would believe me under oath, after this."
"You know, better than any one else, I think, what the stumbling-blocks are, and who is putting them in my way." "Maybe so; maybe I do," was the even-toned answer. "It happens so, once in a while, that I know a heap of things I can't tell, son." Then: "Has McVickar been calling you down?" "No one has called me down. But some one, or something, is keeping me out of the real fight.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking