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As Your Honor will observe, although the reports were made independently and under orders to seek nothing but the facts, they agree substantially in this: that, within an extension of its end-lines, the Old Juan claim is the true apex of the entire Tecolote ore body." He handed over the report and sat down in triumph, while Rimrock's lawyers all objected at once.
As the two men faced each other she could feel the antagonism in every word that they said; and, looking at it as he did, it seemed increasingly reasonable that Rimrock's way was the best. It was better just to fight back without showing his hand and let Jepson guess what he could. "But if we'd stand together " she began at last and Rimrock's face lit up.
"You can get just as drunk on that," replied L. W. pointedly, "as you could on a hundred thousand!" A change came over Rimrock's face, the swift mirroring of some great idea, and he reached out and grabbed the money. "Where you going?" demanded L. W. as he started across the street. "None of your business," answered Rimrock curtly, but he headed straight for the Mint.
Well, sit down a minute; I want to find out a few details. Do you think now, for instance, that Whitney H. Stoddard is back of this man, Ike Bray? Because if he is, and their claim is a good one, it might make some difference to me." He said this so naturally and with such apparent resignation that Jepson almost rose to the bait, but he had learned Rimrock's ways too well.
Long trains of steel ore-cars received the precious concentrates and bore them off to the distant smelters, and at last there came the day when the steady outpay ceased and the money began to pile up in the bank. L. W.'s bank, of course; for since the fatal fight he had been Rimrock's banker and bosom friend. But that ended the long wait.
"The same to you! If I lose, I guess you lose, too." "I don't care," she persisted, "I want you to lose and after it's all over, I'll tell you something." She smiled in a mysterious and tantalizing way, but Rimrock's face never changed. "You'd better tell me now, while you've got the chance," he suggested sitting down by her desk. "And by the way, how come you're hearing so well?"
From the very first she had told herself that the loan was nothing to hide, and yet she was too much of a woman not to have read aright the beacon in Rimrock's eyes. He had spoken impulsively, and so had she; and they had parted, as it turned out, for months. The dove that had crooned so long in the umbrella tree built a nest there and cooed on to his mate.
Hardesty appeared frequently in the Waldorf lobby, and when Rimrock came in with any of his friends he was expected to introduce them. And Rimrock's friends in that swarming hotel were as numerous as they were in Gunsight. He expected no less, wherever he went, than the friendship of every man; and if any held back, for any reason, he marked him as quickly for an enemy.
A pale half moon had risen in the East and by its light she made out the notice that was tacked to the center of the board. That was Rimrock's notice, but now it was void for the hour was long after twelve. She tore it down and stuffed it into her pocket and drew out the one she had prepared. Then, gumming it carefully from a tube of glue, she posted it on the board.
This old friend of mine that helped me and staked me when nobody else would trust me? Then I resign, by grab. If I can't do a little thing like that, I'm going to quit! Right now! You can get another manager! I resign! Now vote on it! You've got to accept it or " "I accept it!" said Stoddard and a wild look crossed Rimrock's face as he saw where his impetuosity had led him.
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