The Early Bird: A Business Man's Love Story

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juggled them and sorted them and shifted them, until at last he found the rat hole, and smiling grimly, placed those pages of neat figures in a small letter file which he took from his trunk. One thing was certain: the Meadow

of letting her know, quite incidentally, that he had gone down to the rose-beds and picked out each individual blossom

llis, who, by the way, was an excellent rider; but they would be back from their canter abou

id brother is sending me some samples of pulp and paper which will arrive at about eleven o'cloc

protested. "I thought

me in my life; and I'm enjoying every second of my freedom, too. I tell you, it's fine.

t with Mr. Princeman to play a match game of croquet. But, and here she relented a trifle, they w

already spoke for as many d

"but I've already promised three of them t

who had spoken with vast enthusiasm, was a base-ball hero. Hollis and Princeman and Westlake were crack bowlers, also crack tennis players, and no doubt all three were even expert croquet

e?" he want

n as I'd lik

te willing to get out of it, if Mr. Turner wanted her to go along, although she did not say so. Young Tilloughby was noto

. "The more the merrier," which was

, was to watch Tilloughby in the saddle, for in their conversation it had developed that Tilloughby was a very fair rider; and everything that he saw Tilloughby do, Sam did. En route they met Hollis and Miss Stevens, cantering just where the Bald Hill road branched off, and the cavalcade was increased to six. Once, in taking a narrow cross-cut down through the woods, Sam had

ver a fallen tree, and Miss Stevens out of bravado followed him, Sam Turner well-nigh ground his teeth, and, acting upon the impulse, he too attempted the jump. The horse got over safely, but Sam went a cropper over his head, and not being a particle hurt had to endure the good-natured laughter of the balance of them. Miss Stevens seemed as much amused

ake and young Tilloughby to go on. The arrangement suited him very well, for at least Hollis' ride with Miss Stevens would not be a tête-à-tête. Miss Westlake strove to let him understand as plainly as she could that she was only going with Mr. Tilloughby because of her previous semi-engagement with him-and there seem

en of business were highly favorable to his scheme; second, that Princeman and Cuthbert, who knew most about paper and pulp, were so profoundly impressed with his samples that they tried to conceal it from him; third, that Princeman, at first his warmest adherent, was now mos

ly to estimate the value of both pulp and paper, it would be necessary to know, by rigid experiment, the preci

d weight, casting, as they did, a

a natural doubt, to say nothing of such a natural insinuation, I should never have subm

Mills were his most successful competitors in the manufacture of specia

rner for reposing confidence enough in him to reveal their process and permit him to make experiments, and stated, with many convincing facts and figures, that he had made several separate samples of the pulp in his experimental shop, and from the pulp had made paper, samples of

it B in the form of Mr. Creamer's letter, and exhibit C in the form of Mr. Creamer's own

eman. "Mr. Turner, would you mind sending some samples of y

would be pleased indeed to do so, jus

y couldn't we organize a sort of tentative company? Why couldn't we at least can

out of himself sidewise, "provided the terms of in

after consultation with our friends here," Mr. Blackrock now

directed Sam. "I'm

read the proposed plan of incorporati

s you submitted me last night, is framed up for the sole purpose of preventing my eve

ere is another thing equally sure, and that is that you can not engage capital in as

I'll have to put up with the best terms I can get. If you will let me have that prospectus of yours,

ackrock, handing it over cou

friendly as Mr. Princeman grew cooler; "if you can get a proposition upon whic

r friend Creamer, who insists upon being in, I imagine that we can fi

pleasure, I'm sure," said Mr.

ver, he went to the telegraph offic

on with pulp company

also a souvenir room, with candy and cigar counters, and as he turn

rinceman was saying. "If you haven't m

to the telegraph desk and sen

sephine Stevens Hollis Creek Inn enclose my card pe

lunch. Immediately after luncheon he rec

e but object to our control but no hurry why don