I feel
certain, however, I can find some less expensive means of keeping
them out of it--say by convincing Poundstone and a majority of the
city council that the N. C. O. is not such a public asset as its
promoters claim for it. Hence I think it wise to sound the situation
out in advance, don't you, my dear?"
She nodded. "I shall attend to the matter, Uncle Seth."
Five minutes after dinner was over, Shirley joined her uncle in the
library and announced that His Honor, the Mayor, and Mrs. Poundstone,
would be delighted to dine with them on the following Thursday night.
CHAPTER XXIV
To return to Bryce Cardigan: Having completed his preliminary plans
to build the N. C. O., Bryce had returned to Sequoia, prepared to sit
quietly on the side-lines and watch his peppery henchman Buck Ogilvy
go into action. The more Bryce considered that young man's fitness
for the position he occupied, the more satisfied did he become with
his decision. While he had not been in touch with Ogilvy for several
years, he had known him intimately at Princeton.
In his last year at college Ogilvy's father, a well-known railroad
magnate, had come a disastrous cropper in the stock market, thus
throwing Buck upon his own resources and cutting short his college
career--which was probably the very best thing that could happen to
his father's son.
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