Meanwhile if you can see Vanderdyke and Mrs. Ralston you
can help me a great deal. I am sure you will find them very
interesting people."
"I have been told that she is quite a female high financier," I
replied, tacitly accepting Craig's commission. "Her story is that
her claim is situated near the mine of a group of powerful
American capitalists, who are opposed to having any competition,
and on the strength of that story she has been raking in the
money right and left. I don't know Vanderdyke, never heard of him
before, but no doubt he has some equally interesting game."
"Don't let them think you connect them with the case, however,"
cautioned Craig.
Early the next morning I started out on my quest for facts,
though not so early but that Kennedy had preceded me to his work
in his laboratory. It was not very difficult to get Mrs. Ralston
to talk about her troubles with the government. In fact, I did
not even have to broach the subject of the death of Templeton.
She volunteered the information that in his handling of her case
he had been very unjust to her, in spite of the fact that she had
known him well a long time ago. She even hinted that she believed
he represented the combination of capitalists who were using the
government to aid their own monopoly and prevent the development
of her mine.
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