"You know Seymour. Meet him at the train and get him over to the office at once. I'll be there. I think we can settle the whole business in an hour." Uncle Sid's face relaxed into a grim smile. "He'll have to come to our terms."
"The main thing, after all, is to get there, and it begins to look as if we had done it."
There was a surprise to both in their immediate vicinity. The door opened without ceremony to admit Mrs. MacGregor. She was still in traveling costume. She nodded slightly to Winston, who rose as if to leave the room. Uncle Sid checked him.
"You stay right here, Ralph."
Mrs. MacGregor addressed Uncle Sid.
"I want a few minutes alone with you, Sidney, on business."
"Me an' Ralph are about as near one as they make 'em, I guess. You just go right on an' unburden your mind."
"The business to which I refer concerns you and me alone."
"Your ward and Helen Lonsdale are included, I guess. If they ain't, you'll have to wait. If they are, you go right on. You didn't raise enough money in Fall Brook to push you out of the Palm Wells mess. You take up the business right there."
Mrs. MacGregor looked at Winston with as much of an appeal in her glance as she could compel herself to make.