Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-01-28


his hopeful suggested.
Guarantee 1t !" his father shouted.
Guarantee it, Well should smoker!
| Wen just show J. P. NJ. and his crowd
! that they made no mistake when they
! picked you as their Sequoia legal rep
resentative. III 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 a copy Of the
telegram
Him 7" he grunted. wants to cross
Water street at B and build out Front
street. Well, dare say nobody will
kick over the traces at that Nothing
but warehouses and lumber-drying
yards along there, anyhow. Still come
to think of 1t. Pennington will probably
raise a howl about sparks from the
engines of the N. C. o. setting his
lumber piles afre."
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 a talk against it, He said the
n. c. o. ought to be discouraged, If
it was a 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,"
"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 the tail-feathers, Henry.
No. sir-not if we know it,"
'You betI" 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 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 a friendly feeling toward the y.
C. o. not unmixed with pleasurable
of the day when Henry
Poundstone junior, should be one of
the most highly priced members of the
legal staff of a public-service corpora
ton.
When he could control his emotions
Mr. Ogilvy gazed approvingly upon
Henry Poundstone. "A1r 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
this franchise-and why you
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 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 1 just
went ahead and filed that order for
you. Anything wrong about that?"
Certainly not. It's perfectly won
lerful. But how did you put it over?"
Henry smirked MY dads the engi-
leer," he said bluntly. IF thirty days
lint enough time, see me and I'll get
-ou thirty days more. And in the
Meantime nobody knows a thing about
his little deal. 1 figured Colonel Pen
lington might try to block you at that
,rossing, so I"
Buck Ogilvy extended his hand in
and let it drop on Henry
thin shoulder.
My dear Poundstone." he said ear
estly, 81 am not a man to forget
lever work. At the proper time I
hall" He smiled his radiant smile. {
You understand, of course, that am c
peaking for myself and can make you |
o firm promises. However," He
miled again. "All l have to say is V
hat you'll dor q
Thank YOU" said Henry Pound
tone, Jr. THANK you ever so much" s
v
An experience extending over a very h
ctive business career of thirty years I.
ad convinced Col. Seth Pennington of p
10 futility of wracking his brains in v
IN speculation over mysteries. a
hen. therefore, the Northern Califor r,
"a Oregon railroad commenced TO b
lcroach on the Colonel's time-appro- t.
ration for sleep. he realized that II
ere was but enc way in which to ST
no hx- .