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Updated: June 21, 2025
Erastus Corning was president, Dean Richmond was vice-president, and John V. L. Pruyn, Nathaniel Thayer, Isaac Townsend, and Chauncey Vibbard were directors. The headquarters of the company were at Albany, and the stock was owned mainly by residents of that city. Meanwhile the building of railroads in other parts of the State and under other leadership was going forward rapidly.
But I can't seem to succeed." "No," said his friend, "because I insist upon it that she's just the woman for you." Vibbard turned to me with an expression of ridicule. "Yes," he said, "Thorny is as much wrapped up in that idea as if his own happiness depended on my marrying her." "You're rivals then, after a new fashion," was my comment. "Don't you see, though, how you are to settle it?" "No."
The next time I saw Silverthorn, which was a full year later, I said to him: "Do you hear from Vibbard anything about that agreement to divide your gains?" "No!" he replied, avoiding my eye; "nothing about that." "Do you expect him to keep it?" "Yes!" he said, glancing swiftly up again, with a gleam of friendly vindication in his eyes. "I know he will."
Silverthorn, a smaller figure than Vibbard, wore a suit of uniform tint, made of sleazy gray stuff that somehow at once gave me the idea that it was taken out of one of his mother's discarded dresses.
"Ida?" queried Silverthorn, with what seemed to the other to be a laughing sneer. "Are you shameless?" demanded Vibbard. "Why don't you lie down there and ask me to forgive you for demanding so little? I've no doubt you are sorry that you couldn't get the whole of my money! But I suppose you were afraid you wouldn't receive even the half, if you told me beforehand what you meant to do."
Then he stopped in embarrassment. "Are you going back that way?" he asked. "No," said the other, gloomily. "We'll go over the river to where I live." They took the path in that direction, and on the way Vibbard began explaining how he had arranged his property. "It's just as well not to go up to the Winwoods' until we've finished this," he said, parenthetically.
This girl, who had so much interested the two friends, in spite of their strong contrasts of character, was, perhaps, the only one in the world who could have pleased them both; for in her own person she seemed to display a mixture of elements, much the same and quite as decided as theirs. What, then, if Vibbard also should wake up to the knowledge of a love for her?
Finding that they had been at Stansby again, I was prompted to ask them more about Ida. "Do you know," I said, boldly, "that I am very much puzzled as to which of you was the more interested in her?" They took it in good part, and Silverthorn answered: "That's not surprising. I don't know, myself." "I'm trying," said Vibbard, bluntly, "to make Thorny fall in love with her.
"I came home intending to give you back your money, but you were not here." "You expect me to believe that?" retorted Vibbard, scornfully, "when I know that you went from here after receiving the check, and ah! I couldn't have believed it, if I hadn't heard " "You overheard us, then? You came, though I warned you not to? And what did you hear?"
These questions repeated themselves incessantly, and were lost again in a chaotic humming that seemed to fill his ears and to shut out the usual sounds of the day, making him feel as if thrust away into a cell by himself, at the same time that he was moving about among other people. Vibbard was to arrive that afternoon.
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