The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-17
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only say my house is at present fun of
guests-as is doubtless your own-and
I should. therefore, find IL practically
impossible TO leave Glen-Ellachie. FOR
tunately, however, my son David Is
now at home on "a brief holiday from
Kimberley, and it will give him great
pleasure to come over and hear what
YOU have to say in favor Of an arrange
ment which certainly on some grounds
seems to me desirable in the interests
OF both our concessions alike. He will
arrive tomorrow afternoon at Seldom,
and he is authorized in every respect to
negotiate with full powers on behalf of
myself and the other directors.
with kindest regards to your wife
and sons, remain, dear Sir Charles,
''- CRAIG-ELEACHIE.
Cunning old fox!" Sir Charles ex-
claimed, with a sniff. whats he up
to now, wonder? Seems almost as
anxious to amalgamate as we our
selves are, Sey." sudden thought
struck him. DO you know" he cried,
looking up, 81 really believe the same
thing must have happened to both our
exploring parties. They must have
have found reef that goes under our
wants to cheat US out of it,"
LAS we want to cheat him." ven
tured to interpose.
Charles looked at me fixedly. "Well,
| if so, we're both in luck" he murmur
| ed, after a pause, though we can only
| get to know the whereabouts Of their
find by joining hands with them and
showing them ours. Still. it's good
business, either way. But 1 shall be
! authorizations"
What a nuisance" Amelia cried,
| VIII nj Of 10
suppose I shall have to put the man
up for the night-a nasty, raw boned,
| half baked Scotchman, you may be
| certain"
| On Wednesday afternoon. about g.
young GrantOn arrived. He was a
pleasant featured, red haired, sandy
whiskered youth, not unlike his father
but, strange to say, he dropped in to
| CALL instead OF bringing his luggage.
| why, you're not going back to
| Glen llachie tonight suFely?"
Charles exclaimed, in amazement
| Lady Vandrift will be so disappoint-
ed, Besides, this business can't be ar
| ranged between two trains, do you
think, Mr.. Granton?"
Young Granton smiled. He had en-
| agreeable smile-canny. yet open.
"Oh, no." he said, frankly. I didn't
mean to go back. I've put up at the
know, and 1 wasn't invited"
Amelia was of opinion, when we told
her this episode, that David Granton
wouldn't stop at Seldom because he
was an honorable. Isabel was of opin-
ion he wouldn't stop because he had
married an unpresentable young wom-
! an somewhere out in South Africa
Charles was of opinion that, as repre-
| sentative of the hostile interest, he put
| I'm n inn hara1TCA pnie1f lafc
hands in some way to be the guest OF
the chairman of the rival company
| And l was of opinion that he had
heard OF the castle, and knew it well
by report as the dullest country house
to stay at in Scotland.
However that may be, young Gran
ton Insisted on remaining at the Gro
marty Arms" though he told US hi.
| wife would be delighted to receive g
call from Lady Vandrift and Mrs
/ Wentworth. So we all returned witt
him to bring the Hon. Mrs. Granton
up to tea at the castle
She was a nice little thing, very shy
and timid, and by no means unpresent-
able. and an evident lady. NShe gig
gled at the end OF every sentence, and
she was endowed with a slight squint
which somehow seemed to point all her
feeble sallies She knew little outside
South Africa, but of that she talked
prettily, and she won all our hearts,
in spite Of the cast in her eye, by her
unaffected simplicity.
Next morning Charles and I had a
regular debate with young Granton
about the rival options. Our talk was
of cyanide processes, reverberatories,
pennyweights water-jackets. But ii
dawned upon us soon that, in spite of
his red hair and his innocent manners,
our friend, the Hon. David Granton,
knew a thing or two. Gradually and
gracefully he let us see that Lord
Craig-Ellachie had sent him for the
benefit of the company, but that he
had come for the benefit of the Hon.
David Granton..
I'm a younger son, Sir Charles" he
said. ''and therefore I have to feather
my nest for myself. 1 know the ground.
My father Will be guided implicitly by
what / advise in the matter. We are
men of the world. Now, let's be bust
nesslike. You want to amalgamate
You wouldn't do that, of course, if you
didn't know of something to the adj
vantage of my fathers company-say
a lode on our land-which you hope TO
secure for yourself by amalgamation.
Very well, / can make or mar your
project. If you choose TO render il
worth my while, I'll induce my father
and his directors to amalgamate. II
you don't, won't. That's the lone and
the short of it,
Charles looked at him admiringly.
Young man." he said, you're deep
very deep-for your age. Is this can
dor-or deception? Do you mean what
you say? Or do you know some rea-
son Why it suits your fathers book
to amalgamate as well as it suits
mine? And are you trying to keep II
from me?" He fingered his chin. 'If
l only knew that" be went on. y
should know how to deal with you"
Young Granton smiled again.
You're financier, Sir Charles" he
answered Il wonder, at your time OF
! life, you should pause to ask another
financier whether he's trying to fill his
own pocket-or his fathers Whatever
is my fathers goes to his eldest SON
and | am his youngest"
You are right as to general princi-
pies, Sir Charles replied, quite affec-
tionately. Most sound and sensible
But how do / know you haven't bar
: gained already in the same way with
your father? You may have settled
with hun, and be trying to diddfe me.
The young man assumed a most can.
did air.
Look here" he said, leaning for.
ward. 81 offer you this. chance. Take
it or leave IT. Do you wish to pur-
chase my aid for this amalgamation by
| a moderate commission on tne nei