Gradually
we are getting everything into shape. When we are ready to go
ahead, it will be the sensation of Wall Street--and, believe me,
it takes much to arouse the Street."
He may have been talking wildly, but it was worth while to listen
to him. For, whatever else he was, Whitney was one of the most
persuasive promoters of the day. More than that, I could well
imagine how any one possessed of an imagination susceptible to the
influence of mystery and tradition would succumb to the glittering
charm of the magic words, peje chica, and feel all the gold-
hunter's enthusiasm when Whitney brought him into the atmosphere
of the peje grande. As he talked, visions of hidden treasure
seemed to throw a glamour over everything. One saw golden.
"You will excuse us?" apologized Kennedy, taking Inez by the arm.
"If you are about, Mr. Whitney, I shall stop to chat with you
again on the way out."
"Remember--she is a very remarkable woman," said Whitney, as we
left him and started for the tea room.
His tone was not exactly one of warning, yet it seemed to have
cost him an effort to say it. I could not reconcile it with any
other idea than that he was trying to use her in his own plans,
but was still in doubt of the outcome.
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