"That's Neuman from Ruxton, one of the biggest wheat men in Washington.

He led Neuman into the hall and knocked upon Anderson's study door.

By its glow he recognized his father's huge frame, back to him, and the burly Neuman on the other side, and Glidden, whose dark face was working as he talked.

He cheated Neuman out of a hundred thousand bushels of wheat.

Jake had been commissioned to acquaint Neuman with the fact that recent developments demanded his immediate presence at "Many Waters."