Don't Ryder and Price own the railroad?"
"They own some of it," said Montague. "Other people own some."
"But the other people have to take their chances," protested the
girl; "if they choose to have anything to do with men like that."
"You are not familiar with business," said the other, "and you don't
appreciate the situation. Curtiss was elected a director--he
accepted a position of trust."
"He simply did it as a favour to Price," said she. "If he hadn't
done it, Price would only have got somebody else. As you say, Allan,
I don't understand much about it, but it seems to me it isn't fair
to blame a young man who has to make his way in the world, and who
simply does what he finds everybody else doing. Of course, you know
best about your own affairs; but it always did seem to me that you
go out of your way to look for scruples."
Montague smiled sadly. "That sounds very much like what he said,
Alice. I guess you have made up your mind to marry him, after all."
Alice set out, accompanied by Oliver, who was bound for Bertie
Stuyvesant's imitation baronial castle, in another part of the
mountains.
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