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Updated: May 26, 2025
"I won't mind anything if I can bring this business down to the every-day commonplace earth once more. You and the senator and Gantry and McVickar are playing some sort of a game, and you ain't showing me anything more than the back of the cards. That's all right. I guess I'm fly enough to play my hand blindfolded, if I've got to. I don't care, just so I win the odd trick."
I reckon that will be mighty sorry news for a good many people in the old Sage-brush State mighty sorry news. You really reckon you have stopped it, do you, son?" "I not only believe it; I am in a position to assert it definitely." "McVickar has told you it was stopped?" The newly fledged political manager tried to be strictly truthful. "I have had but the one interview with Mr.
A sad-faced tourist who was waiting patiently for his room assignment heard only the answer to the question which came over the wire from one of the upper floors: "No, Senator, Mr. Evan is not here; he has just this moment gone out with Mr. McVickar. Could I overtake him? I'll try; but I don't know where they were going. Yes; all right. I'll send a boy right away."
"Exactly. We've got to have that preferential rate or go out of business." "With whom did you make the contract two years ago?" "With Mr. McVickar, verbally. Of course, there wasn't anything put down in black and white, but the railroad folks did their part and we did ours." "I see a gentleman's agreement," she murmured; and then: "You have tried Mr. McVickar again?"
"He sees it now the 'machine' has made him see it." "Yes. You didn't know that a machine could be put to any really righteous use, did you, boy? But in this campaign it has gone in to knock out the crookedness, big and little. Listen, son; you heard what I told McVickar.
The senator reached over, took one of the gigantic McVickar cigars from the open box on the desk, and calmly lighted it. "You're a pretty hard man to convince, Hardwick," he said slowly, when the big cigar was filling the air of the lobby with its fragrance. "Away along back at the beginning of this fight I told you what I was aiming to do, and why.
"See what you fellows escape by not having a sister," he said, nodding toward McVickar and Billings. His tone was severe, but the loving look that shot from his eyes to the dimpled face close to his own belied the words. Any fellow would have been proud to have had such a sister. Billy appreciated the fact. "Anyway, I didn't tie the bows," he added. "McVickar did it. 'Fess up, old man.
"I wish I could convince you that it isn't worth while to hold me at arm's-length, Senator," McVickar was saying, as he clipped the end from his cigar. "You know as well as I do that under the present law in this State we are practically bankrupt. We are not making enough to pay the fixed charges. We do a losing business from the moment we cross your State line."
McVickar walked around the other end of the table-desk and sat down heavily. "You've spoken twice of a 'last chance' David," he said grittingly. "What is it?" "It's the chance I gave you in the beginning. First, let me tell you what I reckon you're already admitting.
"What is the market quotation on disappointments, right now, Hardwick?" he inquired. With another man McVickar might have been too diplomatic to show signs of a shortening temper. But David Blount was an open-eyed enemy of long standing. "I don't know anybody west of the Missouri River who has a better idea of market values than you have," the vice-president countered smartly.
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