A letter from Peter, while it did not bring any positive relief,
shed a ray of light on the situation:
I have just had another talk with the director of our bank--the
one I told you was interested in steel works in Western Maryland.
He by no means agrees with either you or MacFarlane as to the
value of the ore deposits in that section, and is going to make an
investigation of your property and let me know. You may, in fact,
hear from him direct as I gave him your address.
Dear love to Ruth and your own good self.
This was indeed good news if anything came of it, but it wouldn't
help Garry. Should he wait till Garry had played that last card he
had spoken of, which he was so sure would win, or should he begin
at once to try and raise the money?
This news at any other time would have set his hopes to
fluttering. If Peter's director was made of money and intent on
throwing it away; and if a blast furnace or a steel plant, or
whatever could turn worthless rock into pruning-hooks and
ploughshares, should by some act of folly be built in the valley
at the foot of the hill he owned, why something might come of it.
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