Mr. Whitemore thus became the owner of something over a million bushels of corn stored in elevators A, B, and C.
This completed Vance’s business in Omaha.
On his way back to the hotel he stopped at the postoffice, and forwarded to his employer, in care of the Chicago National Bank, the receipt for the money covered by the check.
Then he went to dinner, after which he spent an hour viewing some of the sights of the western city.
At four o’clock he took a cab for the Union Depot, bought a ticket for Kansas City, and took his seat in a Pullman sleeper.
He arrived at his destination about midnight, drove to one of the principal hotels and went to bed, after taking the precaution to deposit his valuable papers in the office safe.
There were three different elevator firms he had to visit in this city.
He presented himself at the first at ten o’clock.
Here his youth was also unfavorably commented on in a transaction which involved 600,000 bushels of grain, and the head of the firm was inclined to hold off, until Vance insisted that he should communicate with his employer in Chicago.
Not being able to get Mr. Walcott on the long-distance ’phone, Vance suggested that he call up Flint, Peabody & Co., of Omaha.