CHAPTER XV
WALLINGFORD GENEROUSLY LOANS THE PNEUMATIC COMPANY SOME OF ITS OWN MONEY
The arrival of Mrs. Wallingford set upon a much higher plane her husband’s already well-established reputation as a capitalist of illimitable resources, and had any one of his partners paused to reflect that Mr. Wallingford had secured an active interest in the concern for five hundred dollars, Doctor Feldmeyer’s report of the capitalist’s charming lady was enough to make that trifling incident forgotten. To Carl Klug and Jens Jensen at Carl’s shop, the doctor, without knowing it, did the missionary work that Wallingford had planned for him to do.
“She is a stunner,” he declared, with the faintest suggestion of a smirk, “and carries herself like a queen. She wears a fur coat that cost not less than six o
