The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1920-05-27

accounts for his failure to bring the
matter up at our interview. Upon his
return to the hotel he found this tele-
gram-and got busy at once. BY
Jupiter, this looks like business.
Henry. how did you come into posses
sion of this telegram"
1T must have been mixed up in the
documents Ogilvy left with me. !
found it on my desk when was sort
ing out the papers, and in my capacity
of attorney for the N. c. o. had no
hesitancy in reading it."
Hockey is"
Hockey doesn't matter" young
Henry declared triumphantly, cal
though I'd bet hat he's one of those
heavyweight Wall street fellows and
one of j. P. Ms vice-presidents, prob
ably. J. p. NJ, of course, is the man
behind"
"Who the devil is ]. P. M?"
Henry smiled tolerantly upon his
ignorant parent. "Well, how may j.
Pierpont Morgan do for a guess?" he
queried.
"Helrs bells and panther-tracks!
Mayor Poundstone started as if snake
bitten. 81 should say you have hooked
big fish. Boy, you've landed a
whale! Did Ogilvy say anything about
future business?"
HE did. Said if l proved satisfac-
tory, he would probably take me on
and pay the customary retainer given
all Of their corporation attorneys"
well, by golly, he'd better take you
on! l had notion that chap Ogilvy
was smart enough to know which side
his bread is buttered on and who does
the buttering.'
"If / could guarantee Mr.. Ogilvy
that temporary franchise mentioned in
his telegram, it might help me to get
in right with ]. p Nj. at the start"
his hopeful suggested.
Guarantee it J" his father shouted
"Guarantee it! Well should smoker
Wen just show ]. p NJ and his crowd
that they made no mistake when they
picked you as their Sequoia legal rep
resentative. 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
No, tod &c %f,a
Water street at 3 and build out Front
street. Well | dare say nobody will
kick over the traces at that. Nothing
but warehouses and lumher-dryine
yards along there, anyhow. Still come
to think of IT Pennington will probably
raise howl about sparks from the
engines of the N. c. O. setting lis
lumber piles afre"
Hell he dead against it." Henry de
clared. II know, because at the Wed,
nesday meeting of the Lumber Manu-
facturers' association the subject of
the n C. o. came up and Pennington
made a talk against it, He said the
N. C. o. ought to be discouraged. if
1t was a legitimate enterprise. which
he doubted. because the most feasible
and natural route for a road would he
from Willis. Mendocino county, north
to Sequoia. ] 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 chance like
this slip by us without grabbing a
handful of the tail-feathers. Henry
No sir-not if 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
Ogilvy at 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 thai
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 nnmXed with pleasurable
anticipations of the day when Henry
Poundstone junior, should be one of
the most highly priced members of the
legal staff of publc-service corpora
ton.
When he coula control his emotions
Mr. Ogilvy gazed approvingly 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 it 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 it as self-explanatory or
else had forgotten to mention it, |
knew you we're busy and didn't want
to bother you with details so just
went ahead and filed that order for