CHAPTER XVIII
HOW THEY BROKE THE RUN
THERE was nothing really surprising about it, though John had not expected that the two dissenting trustees would reach that turning in the lane so soon. On Sunday morning, when he had said to Mr. Cartwright that of course he and Mr. Meredith would not be able to escape all the scandal that would certainly attend the failure of the bank, it was no new fear that he put in the old man’s mind. Mr. Cartwright and his echo had discussed that possibility in awed whispers a dozen times since John had been made president. When he went to Cart- wright’s house Monday evening, John referred frankly, though with a good deal of tact, to that very point ; but he said nothing of the obvious way they had out of their difficulty. He left them to think of that for them
