Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-06-18

and pay the customary retainer given
all OF their corporation attorneys"
"well. by golly. he'd better take you
was smart enough to know which side
his bread is buttered on and who does
the buttering."
III I could guarantee Mr.. Ogilvy
that temporary franchise mentioned in
his telegram, it might help me to get
his hopeful suggested.
Guarantee itp' his father shouted
Guarantee III Well I should smoker |!
Wen just show J. =. NJ. and his crowd
that they made no mistake when they
picked you as their Sequola legal rep
resentative. I'll call a special meeting
~ that little old city council of mine
and jam that temporary franchise
through while you'd he saying Jack
Robinson y"
He carefully made copy Of the
telegram
HIN !" he grunted. wants to cross
Water street at y and build out Front
street Well. dare say nobody will
kick over the trices at that. Nothing
but warehouses and lumber-drying
yards along there. anyhow. still come
Ia think Of II, Pennington will probably
raise a howl about sparks from the
engines of the N. c. o. setting his
lumber piles afire."
"He'll he dead against IT," Henry de
clared. ~ know. because at the We'd
nesday meeting OF the Lumber Manu-
facturers' association the subject OF
the n. G. o. came up and Pennington
made a talk against It. He said the
n. G. o. ought to be discouraged, II
It was a legitimate enterprise. which
he doubted, because the most feasible
and natural route Cor road would be
from Willis. Mendocino county, north
to SeQuoin. I tell you he's dead set
against It,"
Then we won't tell him anything
about II. Henry. Wen just pull OF
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
handful OF the tail-feathers. Henry.
No, sir-not II we know It."
"You bet!" said Henry earnestly.
At eleven.thirty Thursday morning.
young Henry Poundstone, having work
ed the greater part OF the previous
night preparing the deeds. delivered
both deeds and franchise to Buck
Ogllvy at the latter's hotel. II 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 n.
c. o. not nnmixed with pleasurable
antlcipatiOns Of the day when Henry
Poundstone junior. should be one OF
the most highly priced members OF the
legal stan OF public-service corpora
ton.
When he could control his emotions.
Mr.. Ogilvy gazed approvingiy upon
Henry Poundstone. "Mr. Poundstone."
he said sOlemnIy, ~ have met some
meteoric young attorneys In my day.
but you're the frst genuine comet I
have seen In the legal armament. Do
you mind telling me exactly how you
procured this franchise-and why you
procured II without explicit orders
from me?"
Henry did his best to look puzzled.
why" he said, you left that tele-
gram with me. and concluded that
you regarded IL as self-explanatory or
else had forgotten to mention II.
knew you were busy, and didn't want
70 bother you with details, so ! just
went ahead and filled that order for
you. Anything wrong about thaty'
Certainly not. It's perfectly won.
derful. But how did you put II over?"
Henry smirked. my dads the engi.
neer." he said bluntly. "If thirty DAYS
amt enough time, see me and TIL get
you thirty days more. And In the
meantime nobody knows thing about
this little deal. figured Colonel Pen
nington might try TO block you at that
crossing, so /"
Buck Ogilvy extended his hand In
benediction and let II drop on Henry
POundstone's thin shoulder.
MY dear POundstone." he said ear.
nestly, II am not a man to forget
clever work. At the proper time |
shall" He smiled his radiant smile.
"You understand, OF course, that l am
speaking for myself and can make you
no firm promises. However," He
smiled again. "All l have TO say is
that you'll do"
THANK YOU" said Henry Pound.
stone, Jr. THANK you ever so much"
An experience extending over very
active business cGreer OF thirty years
had convinced Coz. Seth Pennington OF
the futility of wracking his brains In
vain speculation over mysteries.
When. therefore. the Northern Califor.
MIA Oregon railroad commenced TO
encroach on the COlonel's time pprO-