“Certainly—for much more than the average, Mr. Garwood.”
“Very good. Now I am going to talk plainly. You are promoting this litigation to form a groundwork for more. If you find what you hope to find, you will bring an action against myself and others.”
“Well?”
“Well, I don’t want that action brought.”
Locke smiled.
“Understand me, I am not afraid of it; but it might disarrange some of my plans. Now, a certain offer has been made to you. You refused it. Wasn’t it big enough?”
“No.”
“In the not improbable event of the fusion of the Peninsular with the O. & N.,” said Garwood slowly, “you might be offered the post of counsel for the amalgamated road.”
“I should refuse that also, for the same reason.”
Garwood threw himself back in his chair.