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“
You
be
sure
to
have
a
clear
understanding
with
the
railroad
first
about
the
rate
,
”
Harran
warned
him
.
When
Magnus
came
out
of
the
grocery
store
and
once
more
seated
himself
in
the
buggy
,
he
said
to
Harran
,
“
Boy
,
drive
over
here
to
Annixter
’
s
before
we
start
home
.
I
want
to
ask
him
to
dine
with
us
to
-
night
.
Osterman
and
Broderson
are
to
drop
in
,
I
believe
,
and
I
should
like
to
have
Annixter
as
well
.
”
Magnus
was
lavishly
hospitable
.
Los
Muertos
’
s
doors
invariably
stood
open
to
all
the
Derricks
’
neighbours
,
and
once
in
so
often
Magnus
had
a
few
of
his
intimates
to
dinner
.
As
Harran
and
his
father
drove
along
the
road
toward
Annixter
’
s
ranch
house
,
Magnus
asked
about
what
had
happened
during
his
absence
.
He
inquired
after
his
wife
and
the
ranch
,
commenting
upon
the
work
on
the
irrigating
ditch
.
Harran
gave
him
the
news
of
the
past
week
,
Dyke
’
s
discharge
,
his
resolve
to
raise
a
crop
of
hops
;
Vanamee
’
s
return
,
the
killing
of
the
sheep
,
and
Hooven
’
s
petition
to
remain
upon
the
ranch
as
Magnus
’
s
tenant
.
It
needed
only
Harran
’
s
recommendation
that
the
German
should
remain
to
have
Magnus
consent
upon
the
instant
.
“
You
know
more
about
it
than
I
,
boy
,
”
he
said
,
“
and
whatever
you
think
is
wise
shall
be
done
.
”
Harran
touched
the
bays
with
the
whip
,
urging
them
to
their
briskest
pace
.
They
were
not
yet
at
Annixter
’
s
and
he
was
anxious
to
get
back
to
the
ranch
house
to
supervise
the
blue
-
stoning
of
his
seed
.
“
By
the
way
,
Governor
,
”
he
demanded
suddenly
,
“
how
is
Lyman
getting
on
?
”
Lyman
,
Magnus
’
s
eldest
son
,
had
never
taken
kindly
toward
ranch
life
.
He
resembled
his
mother
more
than
he
did
Magnus
,
and
had
inherited
from
her
a
distaste
for
agriculture
and
a
tendency
toward
a
profession
.
At
a
time
when
Harran
was
learning
the
rudiments
of
farming
,
Lyman
was
entering
the
State
University
,
and
,
graduating
thence
,
had
spent
three
years
in
the
study
of
law
.
But
later
on
,
traits
that
were
particularly
his
father
’
s
developed
.
Politics
interested
him
.
He
told
himself
he
was
a
born
politician
,
was
diplomatic
,
approachable
,
had
a
talent
for
intrigue
,
a
gift
of
making
friends
easily
and
,
most
indispensable
of
all
,
a
veritable
genius
for
putting
influential
men
under
obligations
to
himself
.
Already
he
had
succeeded
in
gaining
for
himself
two
important
offices
in
the
municipal
administration
of
San
Francisco
—
where
he
had
his
home
—
sheriff
’
s
attorney
,
and
,
later
on
,
assistant
district
attorney
.
But
with
these
small
achievements
he
was
by
no
means
satisfied
.
The
largeness
of
his
father
’
s
character
,
modified
in
Lyman
by
a
counter
-
influence
of
selfishness
,
had
produced
in
him
an
inordinate
ambition
.
Where
his
father
during
his
political
career
had
considered
himself
only
as
an
exponent
of
principles
he
strove
to
apply
,
Lyman
saw
but
the
office
,
his
own
personal
aggrandisement
.
He
belonged
to
the
new
school
,
wherein
objects
were
attained
not
by
orations
before
senates
and
assemblies
,
but
by
sessions
of
committees
,
caucuses
,
compromises
and
expedients
.
His
goal
was
to
be
in
fact
what
Magnus
was
only
in
name
—
governor
.
Lyman
,
with
shut
teeth
,
had
resolved
that
some
day
he
would
sit
in
the
gubernatorial
chair
in
Sacramento
.
