Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-04

was smart enough to know which side
his bread Is buttered on and who doe,
the butterilg."
III | could guarantee Mr.. Ogilvy
that temporary franchise mentioned In
his telegram, 1t might help me to gel
In right with J. =. NJ. at the start,
his hopeful suggested.
Guarantee III" his father shouted
Guarantee It Well should smoker
Well just show J. =. NJ. and his crowd
th,,t they made no mistake when they
picked you as their Sequoa legal rep
resentatlve. I'll call special meeting
of that little old city council of mine
and jam that temporary franchise
through while you'd be saying Jack
Robinson ="
He carefully made copy of the
telegram
Him. he grunted. "Wants to cross
Water street at b and build out Front
street. Well, l dare say nobody will
kick over the traces at that. Nothing
but warehouses and lumber-dryine
yards along there. anyhow. Still come
to think Of 1t. Pennington will probably
raise howl about sparks from the
engines of the N. c. 0. setting his
lumber piles aflre."
Hell be dead against It," Henry de-
clared. 81 know, because at the We'd
nesday meeting of the Lumber Manu-
facturers' association the subject of
the N c. o. came up and Pennington
made talk against 1t. He said the
N. G. 0. ought to be discouraged, II
1t was n legitimate enterprise, which
he doubted, because the most feasible
and natural ute for road would be
from Willis. Mendocino county, north
to Sequola l tell you he's dead set
against It,"
"Then We won't tell him anything
about It, Henry. Wen just pull off
this special session of the council and
forget to invite the reporters after
the job has been put over, Pennington
can come around and howl all he
wants. We're not letting a chance like
this slip by us without grabbing a
handful Of tho tail-feathers, Henry.
No, sir-nOt If we know It,"
"You bet.' said Henry earnestly.
At eleven-thlrty Thursday morning.
young Henry Poundstone, having work
ed the greater part of the previous
night preparing TIE deeds, delivered
both deeds and franchise to Buck
Ogilvy ut the latter's hotel. 1t was
with difficulty that the latter could
conceal his tremendous amazement
when Henry casually handed him the
franchise. True, he had slipped that
fake telegram among the contracts as
bait for Henry and his father, but his
fondest hope, at the time he conceived
the brilliant idea, was that Henry
would show the telegram to his father
and thus inculcate in the old gentle
man friendly feeling toward the \.
c. o. not unmixed with pleasurable
anticipatlons of the day when Henry
Poundstone junior, should be one of
the most highly priced members of the
legal staff of pubiic-service corpora
ton.
When he could control his emotions,
Mr. Ogilvy gazed approyingly upon
Henry Poundstone. "Mr. Poundstone,
he said solemnly, 81 have met some
meteoric young attorneys in my day,
but you're the first genuine comet |
have seen In the legal armament. Do
you mind telling me exactly how you
procured this franchise-and why you
procured 1t without explicit orders
from meY
Henry did his best to look puzzled.
"Why,' he said, "you left that tele-
gram with me, and | concluded that
you regarded it as self-explanatory or
else had forgotten to mention it. |
knew you were busy, and didn't want
to bother you with details, so | just
went ahead and filed that order for
yoI. Anything wrong about that?'
"Certainly not. It's perfectly won
derful. But how did you put it over?'
Henry smirked. "My dads the engi.
neer,' he said blnntly. IF thirty days