He said he had spent two years keeping that woman's suite so men like Hubert Wade would have work and that he would do it again tomorrow. And if a widow's chair was the price of it, he was sorry, but it was a cheap price. Jane asked him to open an inquiry into the record that had been altered. And Roland Warner, still gentle, still holding his hat, took the folded paper out of his breast pocket and stood up and read it aloud to the whole room. The whole voting power of the stock.
Roland Warner until revoked in writing before a meeting of the stockholders. There would be a meeting in January and she would be very welcome at it and until January the operation of the property was his and the inquiry was. He turned to Dwight Hopkins and said he had handled a difficult situation properly. He turned to Philip Craig and said the same and then he looked at the back of the room. The clerk.
Roland said, Riley, is it? Marvin Riley said, "Yes, sir. You discussed the road's internal papers in a public room, and you contradicted your superintendent in front of passengers. Turn your satchel over to the agent and draw your time. It is a strange thing to watch a room full of people decide at the same instant that they were wrong to have hoped." Marvin took the satchel strap over his head.
He did it slowly, and he did not look at anybody. Roland Warner told Philip to put Mrs. Fields back in seat one. Then he told him to put Mrs. Newman and her daughter in the parlor car as the roads guests all the way to Ainsworth.
And he said kindly that she had a long day tomorrow and ought not to go and bury her husband. Then he said the last thing to the room, and it was the thing that finished it. Hate the fields cattle off this road and it is bankrupt by spring and every man standing here is out of work by summer. I would like each of you to think about what this lady's bad afternoon would have cost you." And the room agreed with him. That is the part she would remember.
Not Pauline, not Dwight, not the pencil through her name. The five or six honest faces that would not look at her because a careful man had just told them what standing up was going to cost and they had families and he was almost certainly right. Jane found Marvin Riley out on the platform in the cold with his hands empty. He said she was sorry and that she had told him not to and he had gone ahead anyway and that it was her fault for being in the room at all. Mvin said it was not.
And then he said the true thing, which was worse. I'd do it again, Mrs. But my mother lives on the creek, and this was $40 a month. The engine took water. Somebody was calling the parlor car.