[The Early Bird by George Randolph Chester]@TWC D-Link bookThe Early Bird CHAPTER II 1/15
WHEREIN MR.
TURNER PLUNGES INTO THE BUSINESS OF RESTING At Meadow Brook Sam Turner found W.W.Westlake, of the Westlake Electric Company, a big, placid man with a mild gray eye and an appearance of well-fed and kindly laziness; a man also who had the record of having ruthlessly smashed more business competitors than any two other pirates in his line.
Westlake, unclasping his fat hands from his comfortable rotundity, was glad to see young Turner, also glad to introduce the new eligible to his daughter, a girl of twenty-two, working might and main to reduce a threatened inheritance of embonpoint.
Mr.Turner was charmed to meet Miss Westlake, and even more pleased to meet the gentleman who was with her, young Princeman, a brisk paper manufacturer variously quoted at from one to two million. He knew all about young Princeman; in fact, had him upon his mental list as a man presently to meet and cultivate for a specific purpose, and already Mr.Turner's busy mind offset the expenses of this trip with an equal credit, much in the form of "By introduction to H.L. Princeman, Jr.
(Princeman and Son Paper Mills, AA 1), whatever it costs." He liked young Princeman at sight, too, and, proceeding directly to the matter uppermost in his thoughts, immediately asked him how the new tariff had affected his business. "It's inconvenient," said Princeman with a shake of his head.
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