[The Confessions of Artemas Quibble by Arthur Train]@TWC D-Link bookThe Confessions of Artemas Quibble CHAPTER VI 12/37
"Saw you about that trust matter last week, didn't I ?" "Yes," answered Baldwin.
"Nothing has occurred in connection with it since then." And he returned to his paper without paying any further attention to his companion.
At Bridgeport a telegraph boy rushed into the car and yelled: "Baldwin! Mr.Baldwin!" Mr.Baldwin held out his hand, in which lay half a dollar, and without much apparent interest opened the envelope and scanned its contents. "H'm!" he remarked, half inwardly, and thrust the paper into his pocket. At New Haven another boy boarded the train, calling anxiously for Everitt P.Baldwin--this time there were two telegrams; and just as the train pulled out a third arrived. Mr.Baldwin read them all with the keenest interest and could hardly conceal an exclamation of satisfaction; but the magnate gave no sign.
At New London there was another flurry and, in spite of himself, Mr.Baldwin slapped his knee and muttered: "Good enough!" As the train started again Morgan H.Rogers let fall his magazine and growled half-facetiously: "What the devil are all those telegrams about ?" "Just a little injunction suit," the young man answered modestly, "in which my firm has been quite successful." And, without giving any names--for, indeed, there were none--he sketched rapidly a hypothetical situation of the greatest legal delicacy, in which he had tied up an imaginary railroad system with an injunction, supposedly just made permanent.
Morgan H.Rogers became interested and offered Mr.Baldwin a remarkably big cigar.
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