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"I can see the desirability, but not the means of accomplishing it," replied Leslie. "No!" and the speaker glanced at him scornfully. "Well, Thurston must finish by next summer, or his conditional grants are subject to revision, while it's quite plain he can only work in the cañon in winter. Something in the accident line has got to happen." "It failed before." Shackleby laughed.
I know they were from your State, because I remember afterward my old friend Governor Shackleby said to me fine man, is the Governor one of the finest men our country has produced said he, 'Colonel, how did you like those New York gentlemen? not many such men in the world, Colonel Sellers, said the Governor yes, it was New York he said I remember it distinctly.
Unfortunately for her, however, a free-spoken man called Shackleby, who said that he had been sent by his colleagues who managed the Industrial Enterprise Company, called upon Thurston and Savine together in their city offices. He came straight to the point after the fashion of Western business men. "Julius Savine has rather too big a stake in the Orchard Valley for any one man," he said.
What you and Shackleby are planning does not concern me; but I will not move a finger to help you. Once before you said what you have done and if I have never forgotten it I tried to do so. This time I shall do neither. I have borne very much from you already, but, sunk almost to your level as I am, there are things I cannot stoop to countenance.
"Better late than never," said Shackleby. "My hand's a good one still. I'm not sure I won't call you." "To save time I'll show you mine a little sooner than I meant to do, and you'll see the game's up," replied Geoffrey, grimly. "It may prevent you from worrying me during the next week or two, and you can't well profit by it.
There were further proffers of help from several of his comrades, who, as usual with their kind, possessed some knowledge of rude surgery. When all that was possible had been done for the living, Savine was drawn aside by Shackleby. "This is what he dropped on the platform I picked it up quietly," he said, holding out an ivory-handled revolver.
"So I guessed!" commented Shackleby. "Now, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but you can't afford to quarrel with me if I do. You're coming straight with me to the depot to find out where Mrs. Leslie bought a ticket to." "I'll see you hanged first," broke out Leslie. "Isn't it enough that you presume to read my private correspondence? I'll suffer no interference with my domestic affairs."
"That your suggestion comes rather late in the day," was the answer. Shackleby was silent for a moment, though, for it was quite dark now that the train had gone. Savine could not be quite certain whether he moved against Leslie by accident or deliberately hustled him a few paces away.
"I should hardly have fancied Thurston was an old friend of yours," Shackleby remarked with a carelessness which almost blunted the sneer. "I'm also a little surprised at what you tell me, because I saw Mrs. Leslie hurrying along to the Atlantic express. She couldn't book that way to Victoria."
Shackleby, who was at the bottom of the whole opposition, has cleared out with considerable expedition. Sold all his stock in the Company, and if his colleagues knew much about his doings, which is quite possible, they emphatically disown them. As a result I've made one or two good provisional deals with them, and expect no more trouble. In short, everything points to a great success."
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