Chapter 15
A few days later, and his bold step seemed justified. The directors were an elusive body, and even when got together they found it hard to act with anything like unanimity and despatch; but one afternoon Stephen Giles encountered Mr. Holbrook in the office of one of the hotels and was told that the plan was receiving favourable consideration and was not unlikely to be accepted. As Mr. Holbrook was the most passive member of the directorate, drifting quietly along with the general current, it seemed safe to accept him as representing the feeling of that body. Giles carried the good news to Adams, at the Academy. Adams hurried home with it to his wife and little Frankie. A few days more, and it laboriously transpired that old Jeremiah McNulty was readjusting himself to the plan as modified
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