Pretty
good work for yours truly, eh, Greggy! Good Heaven, think of it! I
started out to strike a blow, to launch a gigantic project for the
people, and this was what I had hatched! Robbery, bribery, fraud--
"
He paused, his hands clenched until the blue veins stood out on
them like whipcords.
"And--"
Gregson spoke, uneasily.
"And what?"
Philip's fingers relaxed their grip on the table.
"If that had been all, I wouldn't have called you up here," he
continued. "I've taken a long time in coming down to the real hell
of the affair, because I wanted you to understand the situation
from the beginning. After I left Brokaw I came north again. I
possessed all the funds necessary to make an honest working
organization out of the Northern Fish and Development Company. I
hired two hundred additional men, added twenty new fishing-
stations, began a second road-bed to the main line, and started a
huge dam at Blind Indian Lake. We had thirty horses, driven up
through the wilderness from Le Pas, and twenty teams on the way.
There didn't appear to be an important obstacle in the path of our
success, and I had recovered most of my old enthusiasm when Brokaw
sprung a new mine under my feet.
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