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"All right, I’m calling your bluff," says Carbhoy senior, handing his son a check for five thousand dollars. "If you make the grade. I'll give you half interest here. Otherwise, there'll be a new brakjeman on the worst road I own. Go to it."
For the moment the boy is nonplussed. He had no idea the discussion would take this unlooked-for turn, but, full of the fighting spirit that has carried his parent through many business battles, he accepts the money, shakes his father's hand, and, with a "Watch my smoke" starts out to tussle with' the world.
Gordon decides to head for Yukon. On the train he falls in with some card sharps, and following a terrific fight, is rescued by a Montanan named Silas Mallinsbee, who invited the boy to visit him at Snake Falls. Mallinsbee is a big man in his way, owning most of the land in that part of the country. He is also the father of a very pretty girl. Hazel.
At the time Gordon arrives in Montana, there is a plan on foot to run a railroad through Mallinsbee 's land. This would mean a fortune to the latter if the opposition of important New York interests could be sidetracked. The opposition .happens to be Gordon's father, who has sent his agent, David Slosson, West to thwart the deal. Slosson falls in love with Hazel Mallinsbee and becomes Gordon's rival for the girl's hand as well as his rival in business .
How young Carbhoy pulls through the railroad deal, making a hundred thousand dollars for himself; how he kidnaps Slosson and lures his father West by knowledge of his parent's secret code, and how, eventually, he wins the love of Hazel Mallinsbee, is told in thrilling and fascinating detail.
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