Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-08

Forgetting his role for moment
"Oliril isn't such bad-er-l meal
Err
"Surh had sale for me, chi" laugh.
ed Mr. Renwyck. unconsciousy help
Ing IS guest out of hole. 81 should
say lot! Why, my boy, we've sold a
! viii - elephantr'
II, hard thought swiftly. Olivia. as
| he Nas about to tell Mr.. Renwyck,
was rot such bad site for q deep wa
| ter harbor after all, and in fact he had
always contended with his father that
| II was more advantageously located
for that purpose than Matagorda City.
| Not only was the situation more CEN
| trail. but 1t offered shorter and more
| direct communication with freight
| routes and main lines. True. the
country was sparsely populated in its
vicinity. but settlers would come nat
urally with the development Of such
an enterprise. Perhaps the Peace
and Good VIII Realty colnpany's rep
resentative was not such an egregious
ass as the Eemwyck and Williams fac
tons supposed.
| elias the new company, In your opin-
ion. any chance Of SUGGEST? he asked
his host.
| "Chance!" laughed Mr.. Rpnwyck.
"Not a ghost of 1t. Now. listen. Here
comes the cream Of the joke. The time
| for taking a vote on these deep water
harbor bills in the Texas legislature
had been set for two weeks from now.
| but various circumstances have played
directly into my hands. Senator Frank
Kinwait. president of the Texas state
improvement committee of the legis-
lature, was closeted with me for two
hours this morning. He is now on his
way to Austin. whore my harbor bill
will be passed by both houses immedi-
ately upon his arrival. and the legisa-
ture will at once adjourn"
"You-you mean" stanmered Rich
ard. that you have bought Kinwait-
| that
"Tut, tut" protested the crafty old
schemer. True, | bought the gentle
man a lunch at Sherry's. together With
a few cigars, couple of cold bottles.
and there were some incidental ex
penses which ran the price of the meal
up-wcll. m into six figures but be-
You'd this Mr.. I;enwyck paused and
smiled. no one in this enlightened
age would dream of buying an entire
legislature. my dear boy. Horrible!'
Richard rose from his seat, took a
turn up and down the library. then
faced his exultant host
"Mr. Renwyck," he asked, aren't
| e;o of 20
tor in the game? From what l have
heard of him. Bill Williams is scarcely
the man to he lying around in ham
mock while you are putting through
your deep water harbor bill. In my
humble opinion, you are going to have
a fight on your hands that will make
you sit up and get busy"
This was the most un-Englsh lam
guage which the supposed nobleman
had yet employed. but it did not at
tract the notice or awaken the suspi-
cion of Mr.. Renwyck at that time.
owing to his deep interest in the mat
ter Immediately in hand.
"Ah," he cried. now you've laid
your finger on a beauty spot! or
course Williams will fight me with
tooth and nail; but. by the Lord Harry.
he can't
"Why not?"
"Simply because he will not be in
Texas when my bill is passed"
Richard stared at his host in fear
and wonder, while Mr.. Renwyck con-
tinued jubilantly:
II could not have had matters turn
out better If | had arranged it all my
self. 1t seems that Williams fool of a
son was up here In New York last
week and got himself badly smashed
up in an automobile accident"
, what. you don't mean
Eyes, it's true" added the specula-
tor quickly without noticing Richard S
look of establishment. Michael show
ed me greatly exaggerated newspa-
per account yesterday morning"
"Is he-er-m ortally or dangerously
hurt?" began Richard. who had IN
truth forgotten all about the condition
of the real CrOyland, and he now be-
! gan to fear that the man who had as
sumed his name really might be more
seriously injured than any of them
! had imagined. Richard was neither
heartless nor Indifferent; but, not sus