"This," he said,
"is the happiest day that I have known since my boy was born."
CHAPTER XXXIX
Colonel Seth Pennington was thoroughly crushed. Look which way he
would, the bedevilled old rascal could find no loophole for escape.
"You win, Cardigan," he muttered desperately as he sat in his office
after Shirley had left him. "You've had more than a shade in every
round thus far, and at the finish you've landed a clean knockout. If
I had to fight any man but you--"
He sighed resignedly and pressed the push-button on his desk. Sexton
entered. "Sexton," he said bluntly and with a slight quiver in his
voice, "my niece and I have had a disagreement. We have quarrelled
over young Cardigan. She's going to marry him. Now, our affairs are
somewhat involved, and in order to straighten them out, we spun a
coin to see whether she should sell her stock in Laguna Grande to me
or whether I should sell mine to her--and I lost. The book-valuation
of the stock at the close of last year's business, plus ten per cent.
will determine the selling price, and I shall resign as president.
You will, in all probability, be retained to manage the company until
it is merged with the Cardigan Redwood Lumber Company--when, I
imagine, you will be given ample notice to seek a new job elsewhere.
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