Michael Malone - Weebly

nothing in his character seemed to make likely the
deliberate malfeasance that the federal findings called
the only explanation possible. But Ransom had been
schooled never to doubt federal findings. So, though
privately surprised and somehow ill at ease, publicly he
condemned that original engineering firm.
The vehement protests of the backers of the state
report over such "unfounded insinuations" by the
backers of the federal report were overruled by the
long, loose strings of litigation, after which, in a quiet act
of good citizenship kept under his hat, Ransom agreed
to act as agent for the purchase of that land from the
state by the nation. With the help of the cooperative
banker, the federal government came into possession of
the entire fifty acres. Ransom took no fee for his
service, but had the pleasure within the year of an
appointment to a board of twenty advisers to a trade
committee, and of an invitation to a dinner given by
state leaders in order to raise money for their party's
national leader, who came personally to thank them,
and from whom Ernest Ransom sat only a flattering
seven seats away. All to the good.