When the new hotel is completed
it will be leased to Mr. Carter. With his insurance money, and the
price of the land in bank, Carter will have capital for embarking in the
hotel business on a scale that will make this end of Arizona sit up and
do some hard looking."
As he listened Proprietor Ashby's jaw dropped. His color came and went.
He swallowed hard, while his hands worked convulsively. With the fine
new hotel that was coming to Paloma the owner of the Mansion House saw
himself driven hopelessly into the background. "Reade, this new hotel
game is some of your doings," growled the hotel man.
"I'm proud to say that it is partly my doing," Tom admitted, with a
smile. "Harry, let's go along to the restaurant. I'm hungry."
As the two young engineers stepped into the car and were driven away,
Ashby dug his fingernails into the palms of his hands.
"So I'm to be beaten out of the hotel game here, am I!" the hotel man
asked himself, gritting his teeth. "I'm to be driven out by Reade, the
fellow whom I once kicked out of my hotel! Oh--well, all right!"
CHAPTER XVIII
TRAGEDY CAPS THE TEST
"Pass the signal!" directed Tom.
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