This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...asserted Colby after the hand-shake, "I'm mighty glad to see you back safe and sound. When did you fetch in?" "This morning on the sleeper. How's everything, and Aunt Carrie? Seen her lately?" "She's o. k., and so is everything else, and you've done finely to land that extra order for drills," responded Colby, who had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...asserted Colby after the hand-shake, "I'm mighty glad to see you back safe and sound. When did you fetch in?" "This morning on the sleeper. How's everything, and Aunt Carrie? Seen her lately?" "She's o. k., and so is everything else, and you've done finely to land that extra order for drills," responded Colby, who had the habit of condensing a good deal in a few words. "But the Barre folks are getting uneasy, your friend Otero has bought the dam site they suppose we want, which squares your Uncle Reuben, as you wanted, so you best go there in a day or two and pacify them. Get rested first, however. I've got a couple of surveyors engaged," he added hurriedly. "They can go with two days' notice, and you know what's to be done." "They can wait till I want them," returned Stacy decisively, "but I'm going to Oakdale on the noon train, however; lands me there in time for supper." "With the fair maid of shortcake fame, of course," smiled Colby, facing around from his desk again. "You are stung, as I remarked, and I'm in for the five-hundred-plunk present, I see, and glad of it! By the way, how's your sleuth act panning out? Got Curtis North in limbo yet?" "No, but as I've got my Uncle Reuben, as you call him, out of it, I'll have North on a limb later. Tell you all about it when I'm back. Give me a check for three hundred; I'm broke," and the hustling Stacy, waiting only for that, added, "Ta, ta, see you in a week," and hurried out of the office. Like his partner, he was not addicted to long explanations or waste of time over business matters. With him it was to think and act almost simultaneously, as he was now doing. He cashed his check within five minut...
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