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Updated: June 17, 2025
I I could n't go to them and confide in them. And you well, I knew the Rodaines were your enemies and I 've rather liked you for it." "Thank you. But " and Fairchild's voice became a bit frigid "I have n't been able to understand everything. You are engaged to Maurice Rodaine." "I was, you mean." "Then " "My engagement ended with my father's death," came slowly and there was a catch in her voice.
A scream came from a doorway before him; dimly, as through a red screen, Fairchild saw the frightened face of Anita Richmond, and on the landing, fronting him angrily, stood the two Rodaines. For a moment, Fairchild disregarded them and turned to the sobbing, disheveled little being in the doorway. "What's happened?" "They were threatening me and father!" she moaned.
And yet why? That one little word halted Fairchild as he left the elevator. Why should the Rodaines be willing to free him from all the troubles into which his mining ventures had taken him, start him out into the world and give him a fortune with which to make his way forward? Why?
There are no accusations where he rests now; I 'm sure of that. If if he ever did anything in his life that wasn't right, he paid for it. We don't know what happened, Harry all we are sure of is that if it's what we 're we 're afraid of, we 've gone too far now to turn back. Don't you think that certain people would make an investigation if we should happen to quit the mine now?" "The Rodaines!"
It galled Fairchild, it made his hate stronger than ever; yet within him there could not live the hope that the Silver Queen might share the fate of the Blue Poppy. Other persons besides the Rodaines were interested now, persons who were putting their entire savings into the investment; and Fairchild could only grit his teeth and hope for them that it would be an everlasting bonanza.
Now it was different. She had gone over to the Rodaines, she was engaged to marry the chalky-faced, hook-nosed son and she was vice-president of their two-million-dollar mining corporation. Fairchild did not even strive to find a meaning for it all; women are women, and men do well sometimes if they diagnose themselves. The summer began to grow old, and Fairchild felt that he was aging with it.
But it narrowed down again, and the old standard came back. I don't know what it's going to do now it may quit altogether." "But we 're going to keep at it, Harry, sink or swim." "You know it!" "The Rodaines have hit maybe we can have some good luck too." "The Rodaines?" Harry stared. "'It what?" "Two hundred dollar a ton ore!" A long whistle.
I 've known her ever since she was a little tad not big enough to walk. And she loves her father." "But " "She loves her father. Is n't that enough? The Rodaines have the money and they have almost everything that Judge Richmond owns. It's easy enough to guess what they 've done with it tied it up so that he can't touch it until they 're ready for him to do it.
If the Rodaines owned Judge Richmond, how far did that ownership extend? After a long time, he forced himself to a statement. "I know his daughter." "You?" Harry straightened. "'Ow so?" "She sold me a ticket to a dance," Fairchild carefully forgot the earlier meeting. "Then we 've happened to meet several times after that.
Fairchild knew in his heart that Harry was not built along those lines. Looking back over it now, Fairchild could see how easily Fate had played into the hands of the Rodaines, if the Rodaines had not possessed a deeper concern than merely to seize upon a happening and turn it to their own account. The highwayman was big.
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