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Chapter XVI
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On Dick’s face, at lunch, there was no sign of trouble over the Harvest Group; nor could anybody have guessed that Jeremy Braxton’s visit had boded1 anything less gratifying than a report of unfailing earnings2. Although Adolph Weil had gone on the early morning train, which advertised that the business which had brought him had been transacted3 with Dick at some unheard of hour, Graham discovered a greater company than ever at the table. Besides a Mrs. Tully, who seemed a stout4 and elderly society matron, and whom Graham could not make out, there were three new men, of whose identity he gleaned5 a little: a Mr. Gulhuss, State Veterinary; a Mr. Deacon, a portrait painter of evident note on the Coast; and a Captain Lester, then captain of a Pacific Mail liner, who had sailed skipper for Dick nearly twenty years before and who had helped Dick to his navigation.
The meal was at its close, and the superintendent6 was glancing at his watch, when Dick said:
“Jeremy, I want to show you what I’ve been up to. We’ll go right now. You’ll have time on your way to the train.”
“Let us all go,” Paula suggested, “and make a party of it. I’m dying to see it myself, Dick’s been so obscure about it.”
Sanctioned by Dick’s nod, she was ordering machines and saddle horses the next moment.
“Oh, one of Dick’s stunts9. He’s always after something new. This is an invention. He swears it will revolutionize farming—that is, small farming. I have the general idea of it, but I haven’t seen it set up yet. It was ready a week ago, but there was some delay about a cable or something concerning an adjustment.”
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