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Updated: May 11, 2025
Yes, the bank would be glad to accommodate me all right; if you could of been there an' heard Fred Orcutt lay down his terms you'd know just how damn glad they'd of been to accommodate me. It kind of stunned me at first, an' then I saw red the man I'd befriended in more ways than one, just layin' back till he had me in his clutches!
"About the subsequent payments " began Orcutt, but Cameron interrupted him: "Let us not discuss that now. The better way will be for you to allow me to draw up the contract, and then to-morrow morning we can go over it, clause by clause." "Good idea," agreed Orcutt.
John McNabb knows every trick of the logging game, and when he finds out what has happened he'll go the limit to buck us." Wentworth considered. "I guess he could do that, all right. We would have to let his stuff through " "I'll fix him!" cried Orcutt. "I'll beat him to it! Where do we do business with the Government and the Hudson's Bay Company?"
The following day, Orcutt and Wentworth stood at the head of the rapids and Orcutt listened as the engineer, with the aid of his field notes and maps, explained the construction of the dam, and roughly indicated the contour of the reservoir. "But what's this line the dotted one, that crosses the river just above us?" "That is our western property line.
She was almost coquettish. His eyes lingered. The china silk blouse was slightly open at the neck, suggesting the fullness of her throat; it clung to the outline of her shoulders. Overcome by an impulse he could not control, he got up and went toward her, but she avoided him. "I'll tell Mr. Orcutt you've come," she said, rather breathlessly, as she reached the door and opened it.
"Listen to me, Orcutt; by your own admission you've been trying for more than twenty years to ruin me. I've let you go, never turning out of my way to injure you. I'm not turning out of my way now. If you're squeezed it is because of your own deeds not mine." "Squeezed!" sobbed the banker hysterically. "I'm ruined! It means the bank my home everything! It means more.
We can lay in some provisions for the trip and it will be loads of fun. It will remind you of your old days in the North." The girl took his arm, and the two turned abruptly away, leaving Orcutt standing in his tracks watching their departure with somewhat of a grin.
"Oh well, keep after him, get him to trace them." "I'm doing that," replied the conscientious Orcutt. "How's everything else going?" Ditmar demanded, with unlooked-for geniality. "You mustn't take things too hard, Orcutt, don't wear yourself out." Mr. Orcutt was relieved. He had expected an outburst of the exasperation that lately had characterized his superior. They began to chat.
"I came home," he informed her, somewhat superfluously, his eyes never leaving her, wandering hungrily from her face to her new suit, and back again to her face. "I got here on the seven o'clock train, I wanted to see about those new Blubbers." "They finished setting them up this afternoon," she said. "How did you know?" "I asked Mr. Orcutt about it I thought you might telephone."
Ditmar seemed somehow to have managed to infuse not only Orcutt, the superintendent, but the foremen and second hands and even the workers with a common spirit of pride and loyalty, of interest, of determination to carry off this matter triumphantly. The mill seemed fairly to hum with effort.
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