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Scherer, who would often greet me now with a smile and a joke, and sometimes went so far as to ask my opinions.... Then, about six months later, came the famous Ribblevale case that aroused the moral indignation of so many persons, among whom was Perry Blackwood.
The point is, there's no other way out for us. Just think a moment, bearing in mind what I've told you about the case, and you'll see it." Mr. Gorse took up the paper again, and read the draft over. "You know as well as I do, Miller, how dangerous it is to leave this Ribblevale business at loose ends.
"Last night I discovered by a mere accident, in talking to a man who came in on a late train, that a bill introduced yesterday, which is being rushed through the Judiciary Committee of the House an apparently innocent little bill will enable, if it becomes a law, the Boyne Iron Works, of your city, to take possession of the Ribblevale Steel Company, lock, stock, and barrel.
The point is, there's no other way out for us. Just think a moment, bearing in mind what I've told you about the case, and you'll see it." Mr. Gorse took up the paper again, and read the draft over. "You know as well as I do, Miller, how dangerous it is to leave this Ribblevale business at loose ends.
They yell bloody murder when they do find out, but generally it's too late, if a bill's been handled right." I found myself speculating as to who the "outsiders" might be. No Ribblevale attorneys were on the spot as yet, of that I was satisfied. In the absence of these, who were the opposition? It seemed to me as though I had interviewed that day every man in the legislature. I was very tired.
Since I am not writing a technical treatise, I need not go into the details of the Ribblevale suit. Since it to say that the affair, after a while, came apparently to a deadlock, owing to the impossibility of getting certain definite information from the Ribblevale books, which had been taken out of the state.
Another thought intruded itself, that of Mr. Pugh, the president of the Ribblevale Company. My father had known him, and some years before I had traveled halfway across the state in his company; his kindliness had impressed me.
Since I am not writing a technical treatise, I need not go into the details of the Ribblevale suit. Since it to say that the affair, after a while, came apparently to a deadlock, owing to the impossibility of getting certain definite information from the Ribblevale books, which had been taken out of the state.
I began to see something dramatic and sensational in Krebs's performance.... The Ribblevale Steel Company was the real quarry, after all. And such had been the expedition, the skill and secrecy, with which our affair was conducted, that before the Ribblevale lawyers could arrive, alarmed and breathless, the bill had passed the House, and their only real chance of halting it had been lost.
The Judiciary Committee of the august body did indeed condescend to give hearings, at which the Ribblevale lawyers exhausted their energy and ingenuity without result with only two dissenting votes the bill was calmly passed. In vain was the Governor besieged, entreated, threatened, it was said; Mr.
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