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in right with J. P. NJ. at the start"
his hopeful suggested.
Guarantee III" his father shouted.
Guarantee I'll Well I should snicker
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 a special meeting
of that little old city council OF mine
and jam that temporary franchise
through while you'd be saying Jack
Robinsonr ="
He carefully made q copy of the
telegram
"Hm!" he grunted wants to cross
Water street at b and build out Front
street. Well. dare say nobody will
kick over the trHces at that. Nothing
but warehouses and lumber drying
yards along there. anyhow. Still come
to think OF II Pennington will probably
raise a howl about sparks from the
engines OF the N. c. o. setting his
lumber piles atlre."
Hell he dead against It," Henry de-
c'ared. ~ know, because at the We'd
nesday meeting of the Lumber Manu-
facturers' association the subject OF
the y. C. o. came up and Pennington
made talk against 1t. He said the
n. c. o. ought to be discouraged II
1t was legitimate enterprise, which
he doubted. because the most feasible
and natural route for road would be
from Willis Mendocino county. north
TO SeQuoia. I tell you he's dead set
against It,"
'1'hen we won't tell him anything
about II. 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 ground 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. slr-not II we know It."
"You bet" said Henry earnestly.
At eleven-thlrty Thursday morning.
young Henry Poundstone. having work
night preparing the deeds. delivered
both deeds and franchise to Buck
Ogilvy at the latters hotel. 1t was
with difficulty that the latter could
conceal his tremendous amHzement
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 !nculcate In the old gentle
man friendly feeling toward the N.
c. o. not unmlxed with pleasurable
Poundstone junior should - ene Of
the most highly priced members OF the
legal stan of public-servIce corpora
tion.
When he could control his emotions.
Mr. Ogllvy gazed approvingly upon
Henry FOundstone. "Mr. Poundstone,"
he said soemnly. 81 have met some
meteoric young attorneys in my day.
but you're the first genuine comet I
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 I concluded that
you regarded 1t MS self-explanatory or
else had forgotten to mention It. !
knew you were busy. and didn't want
to bother you with details, SO l Just
went ahead and filed that order for
you. 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 bluntly. "If thirty days
aIn't enough time, see me and III get
you thirty days more. And In the
meantime nobody knows thing about
this little deal. l figured Colonel Pen
nington might try to block you at that
crossing, SO i"
Buck Ogilvy extended his hand In
benediction and let 1t drop on Henry
POundstoDe's thin shoulder.
MY dear Poundstone." he said ear
clever work. At the proper time I
shall" He smiled his radiant smile.
"You understand, of course. that 1 am
speaking for myself and can make you
no firm promises. However," He
smiled again. "All l have to say Is
that you'll dol"
'Thank you." said Henry Pound
stone, Jr. THANK you ever so much"
An experience extending over a very
active business career OF thirty years
had convinced Col. 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 COlonels time-apprO-
priatiOn for sleep. he realized that
there was hut one way In which to
conserve his rest and that was by
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