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"Oh, Rimrock!" she gasped, "I've had such a blow won't you take me back to my rooms? Oh, I can't explain it, but Whitney H. Stoddard is trying to force me to give up my stock! That Tecolote stock " "Here, get into this taxi!" said Rimrock on the instant, "now where do you want to go?" "To the St. Cyngia on Ninety-fifth Street and hurry!" she commanded; and the chauffeur slammed the door.
And that peacock ore, that copper glance! That runs up to forty per cent. Now, here's a job for you as secretary of the Company, a little whirl into the higher mathematics. Just find the cubic contents of Tecolote mountain and multiply it by three per cent. That's three per cent. copper, and according to those assays the whole ground averages that.
Now at last she understood the inexplicable reticence with which Rimrock had veiled his associate's name and her heart almost stopped as she thought how close she had come to parting with her Tecolote stock. Those two thousand shares, if she held on to them to the end, might bring her in thousands of dollars!
And of Mary Fortune, the typist, as he had known her at first but now she was sending letters like this: "DEAR SIR: You are hereby notified that the regular Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Tecolote Mining Company will be held at the offices of the Company, in the Tecolote Hotel," etc., etc. Rimrock threw down the letter and cursed himself heartily for a fool, a chump and a blackguard.
Although he moulded the policies of that great corporation and seemed endowed with unlimited power his actual holdings in the stock of the company were almost ridiculously small. Yet he took advantage of his dominating position and the influence it gave him with the directors to make such coups as he had made with the Tecolote, building the branch line which had given value to his mine.
And all the time he was dallying in New York and playing his puny string at Navajoa the Old Juan claim and the mighty Tecolote had been left unguarded until they were jumped. "Where's L. W.?" he asked, coming suddenly from his trance; and she was sitting there, dry-eyed as before. "He's gone to the hospital. Bray shot him through the arm in a quarrel over the claim." "What?
He had been a close friend of her husband, in their boyhood, and that probably accounted for the fact; otherwise he would never have sold her that Tecolote. "But he's got a string on it," suggested Rimrock shrewdly; but she only drooped her eyelashes and smiled. "I never carry gossip between rivals," she said. "They might fly at each other's throats. You don't like Mr. Stoddard.
"You're going to that woman!" she hissed vindictively, "perhaps I can tell you something about her. Well, I can!" she declared, "and I can prove it, too. I can prove it by my Tecolote stock." "You haven't got any stock," answered Rimrock roughly. But he stopped and she drew back and smiled. "Oh!" she said as she noted his interest, "you're beginning to believe me now.
Buckbee's stock is cancelled, and his resignation automatically takes place. Friend Buckbee is all right, but dear friend W. H. Stoddard might use him to slip something over. It's We, Us and Company, you and me, little Mary, against Whitney H. Stoddard and the world. Do you get the idea? We stand solid together two directors out of three and the Tecolote is in the hollow of our hand."
It is the combined reports of three practical geologists employed by the Tecolote Company itself, though at a time preceding this suit and intended solely for the purposes of exploration.
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