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Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West

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"I'll accompany the girls, of course," said Uncle John; "and I think we

ought not to delay in seeing your man. Colby says you may be called for

examination at any time."

"There is one more question I want to ask," announced Maud as they rose

to go. "On what date did you reach New York, after landing at San

Francisco?"

"Why, it must have been some time in last January. I know it was soon

after Christmas, which I passed in Chicago."

"Is that as near as you can recollect the date?"

"Yes, at short notice."

"Then perhaps you can tell me the date you took possession of the

Continental Film Company by entering the stockholders' meeting and

ejecting yourself president?"

He seemed surprised at her information and the question drew from him an

odd laugh.

"How did you learn about that incident?" he asked.

"Goldstein told Mr. Merrick. He said it was a coup d'etat."

The boy laughed again.

"It was really funny," said he. "Old Bingley, the last president, had no

inkling that I controlled the stock. He was so sure of being reelected

that he had a camera-man on hand to make a motion picture of the scene

where all would hail him as the chief. The picture was taken, but it

didn't interest Bingley any, for it showed the consternation on his face,

and the faces of his favored coterie, when I rose and calmly voted him

out of office with the majority of the stock."

"Oh!" exclaimed Maud. "There was a picture made of that scene, then?"

"To be sure. It was never shown but once to an audience of one. I sat

and chuckled to myself while the film was being run."

"Was it kept, or destroyed?" asked the girl, breathlessly.

"I ordered it preserved amongst our archives. Probably Goldstein now has

the negative out here, stored in our Hollywood vaults."

"And the date--when was it?" she demanded.

"Why, the annual meeting is always the last Thursday in January. Figure

it out--it must have been the twenty-sixth. But is the exact date

important, Miss Stanton?"

"Very," she announced. "I don't know yet the exact date that Andrews

landed in New York on his return from Vienna, but if it happened to be

later than the twenty-sixth of January--"

"I see.

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