The advertisement seemed to sneer at him, to jibe at him, calling as it did for every upstanding citizen of Ohadi to join in on the stock-buying bonanza that would make the Silver Queen one of the biggest mines in the district and Ohadi the big silver center of Colorado.

The words appeared to be just so many daggers thrust into his very vitals.

But Fairchild read them all, in spite of the pain they caused.

He finished the last line, looked at the list of officers, and gasped.
For there, following one another, were three names, two of which Fairchild had expected.

But the other-- They were, president and general manager, R.B.( Squint) Rodaine; secretary-treasurer, Maurice Rodaine; and first vice-president--Miss Anita Natalie Richmond!.