Meredith Nicholson

The Main Chance Meredith Nicholson

"Well, sir, they say I'm crooked!"William Porter tipped back his swivel chair and placidly puffed a cigar as he watched theeffect of this declaration on the young man who sat talking to him."That's said of every successful man nowadays, isn't it?" asked John Saxton. The president of the Clarkson National Bank ignored the question and rolled his cigar fromone side of his mouth to the other, as he waited for his words to make their full impressionupon his visitor."They say I'm crooked," he repeated, with a narrowing of the eyes, "but they don't say itvery loud!"Porter kicked his heels together gently and watched his visitor with eyes in which therewas no trace of humor; but Saxton saw that he was expected to laugh.