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"No," the President replied, "I told him we would not do it at once, because there was no business or prospect of business to justify the expense." "Ah h," said the Manager. O'Marity whistled softly. The Honorable gentleman smiled, and looked out through the open window to where the members of the State legislature were going up the broad steps to the State House. "Mr.
"I had no authority to see him." "It's damphunny," said O'Marity, "if the President 'ave seen 'im, 'e don't quit." "I certainly saw a man called Jones, Buffalo Jones of Garden City. He wanted a side track put in half-way between Wakefield and Turner's Tank." "And you told him, 'Certainly, we'll do it at once," said the General Manager.
"I thought you said you had seen Jones," the General Manager began. Now the President, who was never known to be really angry, wheeled on his revolving chair. "I have seen Jones." "Well, O'Marity says Jones has not been 'seen. His friend, who comes down from Atchison every Sunday night on O'Marity's hand-car, has been good enough to tell O'Marity just what has been going on in the House.
The Colonel knew that a good, virtuous man with money to spend could make trouble for anything or anybody, working quietly and unobtrusively among the equally virtuous members of the State legislature. The Colonel had been a member of that august body. In a little while the General Manager came back; and with him came O'Marity, the road-master.
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