Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-23
CHAPTER XIV.

.Ioynen who successfully exploit their
taIIowg. Mr. Duxbury Farley did not
Aasn7 If necessary to cOnfide fully in
Via son when the representative of
American Aqueduct broke off negotia-
lions abruptly and went back to New
York.
Uban the comfortable arrangement
with the pipe trust threatened to mis-
carry. all he did was to urge Vincent
IN hasten the day when Miss Dabney's
stock could be utilized as a Farley as
set. Pressed gor particular reasons, he
turned It off lightly. A young man IN
the fever of ante-nuptial expectancy
was mere pawn in the business
game: let it be over and done with. SO
that the nominal treasurer Of CHA
wagsee Limited could once more be-
come the treasurer in fact
Whereupon Vincent, who rode badly
at best bought a new saddle-horSe and
took his place at Miss Dabney's whip
hand in the early morning rides, the
place formerly filled by Tom Gordon
which was not the part of wisdom, one
would say. Contrasts are pitiless
things; and the wary woman hunter
will break new paths rather than ira
verse those already broken by his ri
val
Tom, meanwhile, had apparently re-
lapsed into his former condition of dis
interest, and was once more spending
his days on the mountain, seemingly
bent on effacing himself socially, as he
had been effaced business wise by the
Farley overturn.
of
he was crossing the road leading over
the mountains shoulder, he came on
the morning riders walking their horses
toward Paradise, and saw trouble in
Miss Dabney's eyes, and on Farley's
impassive face a mask of sullen anger.
With the negotiations for the sale TO
the trust so abruptly terminated, the
promoter president set instant and
anxious inquiry afoot to determine the
cause. 1t was soon revealed; and when
Mr. Farley found that the pipe-pit pat
ents had not been transferred with the
Gordon plant, and that Major Dabney
had given Caleb Gordon power of at
torney over Ardea's stock in the COM
pany, there were hard words said in
the town offices of Messrs. TreWhitt e
SIOcumb, Chiawassee attorneys, and a
torrent of persuasive ones poured into
the Majors ear-the latter pointing 10
the crying necessity for the revocation
of the power of attorney, summarily
and at once.
The Major proved singularly obstin-
ate and non cOmmittal. 'Mistah CALEB
Gordon is my friend, sub, and l was
mighty proud to do him this small ia
al, TO
neh of Offence to me, sub: no man
neh Of DILIGENCE, Whateveh," was all an
anxious promoter could get out of the
old autoCra of Deer Trace. But Mr..
Farley did not desist; neither did he
fail to keep the telegraph wires to New
York heated to incandescence with his
appeals for a renewal of the negotia-
tons for surrender.
When the wired appeals brought
forth nothing but evasive replies, Mr.
Farley began to look for trouble, and
II came: first in a mysterious closing
Of the market against Chiawassee pipe,
and next in an alarming advance of
freight rates from Gordonia on the
Great Southwestern.
Colonel Duxbury doubled his field
force and gave his travellers a free
hand on the price list Per suasion and
diplomacy having failed, a frenzy like
that Of one who finds himself slipping
INTO the sharp staked pitfau prepared
LOT others seized on him. 1t was the
madness of those who have seen the
clock hands stop and begin to turn
steadily backward on the dial of sue
cess.
len days later the freight rates went
up another notch. and there began to
ne painful dearth of cars in which to
snip the few orders the statesmen were
sun able to place. Mr.. Farley shut his
eyes 10 the portents, put himself reck-
.eSS1y into Mr.. Vancourt Hennikers
"1hoS as a borrower, and posted a no
lice OF slashing cut in wages at the
works
As matter of course, the cut bred
immediate and tumultuous trouble with
'Ae miners and in the midst of it the
president made a flying trip to New
York; to the metropolis and to the Of
noes Of American Aqueduct to make a
mai appeal in person.
but the door was shut. Mr.. Dracolt
was not to be seen, though his assist
al, was very affable. No; American
AQueduct was not trying to assimilate
me smaller plants. or to crush out all
competition, as the public seemed to
'eleFe. With fifty million dollars in
vested II could easily control a market
'oF lis own product. which was all the
slaTeholders demanded. Was Mr.
Farley IN the city for some little time?
ana would he not dine with the assist
all al the Waldorf Astoria?
Mt Farley took
-'"od instead, and on reaching South
1'e~eEar, wired his New York broker
10 lest the market with a small block
y, N1'aWasSee Limited. There were no
,'"eES III the upset price; and the high
81 md was less than half of the ask
- colonel DuNhury was writing let
- at the Cupola when the brokers'
,S'-sam was handed him. and he broke
--'S which had held good for the bet
u. @1TI Of cautious. self contained
.--V'.'he. The following morning the
'..'.T'S and all the white men employ
q" the furnace and foundries ami
Yards at Gordonia went on strike.
-"Atey Farley had resources, a cord
'"o'e fortune as country fortunes
"'"assed by far seeing shrewdness,
~ l-''A contempt for the we'll being OF
'>s business ASSOCIATE S and most of all