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Contemporary
Project Management
FOURTH EDITION
Timothy J. Kloppenborg
•
Vittal Anantatmula
•
Kathryn N. Wells
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MS Project 2016 Instructions in Contemporary Project Management 4e
Chapter MS Project
3 MS Project 2016 Introduction
Ribbon, Quick Access Toolbar, view panes, Zoom Slider, Shortcuts, Scheduling Mode Selector
Setting Up Your First Project
Auto schedule, start date, identifying information, summary row
Create Milestone Schedule
Key milestones, zero duration, must finish on, information
9 Define Resources
Resource views, max units, resource calendars
Assigning Resources
Basic assignment, modify an assignment
Identify Overallocated Resources
Resource usage and Detailed Gantt views together
Overallocated Resources
Finding overallocated resources, dealing with overallocations
Crashing a Critical Path Activity
15 Close Project
Creating project progress reports, sharing reports, export a report to MS Excel, archive project work,
capture and publish lessons learned
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PMBOK® Guide 6e Coverage in Contemporary Project Management 4e
The numbers refer to the text page where the process is defined.
Project management (PM) processes and knowledge areas 10–11 Project life cycle 7–10, 62–64
Projects and strategic planning 33–37 Organizational influences 102–110
Portfolio and program management 37–42
®
PMBOK Guide, 6th ed. Coverage
Project Develop Develop Project Management Plan Direct and Manage Monitor and Control Close
Integration Project 409–410 Project Work 459–460 Project Work 460–462 Project
Management Charter Manage Project Perform Integrated or Phase
60–79 Knowledge 192–193, Change Control 503,
504–508 229–232, 462–463 508–511
Project Scope Plan Scope Management 211–212 Validate Scope
Management Collect Requirements 212–216 500–501
Define Scope 216–220 Control Scope
Create WBS 220–229 475–476
Project Plan Schedule Management 246 Control Schedule
Schedule Define Activities 249–253 476–480
Management Sequence Activities 253–255
Estimate Activity Durations 255–258
Develop Schedule 259–267
Project Cost Plan Cost Management 329–330 Control Costs 345,
Management Estimate Costs 330–341 476–480
Determine Budget 342–344
Project Quality Plan Quality Management 401–404 Manage Quality Control Quality
Management 404–406, 469–474 406–409, 469–474
Project Plan Resource Management 290–295 Aquire Resources Control Resources 476
Resources Estimate Activity Resources 290 138–141
Management Develop Team 141–157
Manage Team 157–161
Project Com- Plan Communications Management Manage Monitor
munications 188–192 Communications Communications
Management 193–199, 465–467 467–468
Project Risk Plan Risk Management 360–366 Implement Risk Monitor Risks
Management Identify Risks 75, 366–368 Responses 464–465 463–464
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis 75,
368–372
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
372–373
Plan Risk Responses 75, 373–377
Project Plan Procurement Management Conduct Control Procurments
Procurement 431–433, 438–441 Procurements 441
Management 434–438
Project Stake- Identify Plan Stakeholder Engagement 184–186 Manage Stakeholder Monitor Stakeholder
holder Stakehold- Engagement 187–188 Engagement 188
Management ers 75–77,
178–184
Source: Adapted from A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK ® Guide), 6th ed. (Newtown Square, PA: Project Management
Institute, Inc., 2017): 31.
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Contemporary Project
Management
ORGANIZE LEAD PLAN PERFORM
FOURTH EDITION
TIMOTHY J. KLOPPENBORG
Xavier University
VITTAL ANANTATMULA
Western Carolina University
KATHRYN N. WELLS
Keller Williams Real Estate
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MS Project 2016 Instructions in Contemporary Project Management 4e
Chapter MS Project
3 MS Project 2016 Introduction
Ribbon, Quick Access Toolbar, view panes, Zoom Slider, Shortcuts, Scheduling Mode Selector
Setting Up Your First Project
Auto schedule, start date, identifying information, summary row
Create Milestone Schedule
Key milestones, zero duration, must finish on, information
9 Define Resources
Resource views, max units, resource calendars
Assigning Resources
Basic assignment, modify an assignment
Identify Overallocated Resources
Resource usage and Detailed Gantt views together
Overallocated Resources
Finding overallocated resources, dealing with overallocations
Crashing a Critical Path Activity
15 Close Project
Creating project progress reports, sharing reports, export a report to MS Excel, archive project work,
capture and publish lessons learned
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PMBOK® Guide 6e Coverage in Contemporary Project Management 4e
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Project management (PM) processes and knowledge areas 10–11 Project life cycle 7–10, 62–64
Projects and strategic planning 33–37 Organizational influences 102–110
Portfolio and program management 37–42
®
PMBOK Guide, 6th ed. Coverage
Project Develop Develop Project Management Plan Direct and Manage Monitor and Control Close
Integration Project 409–410 Project Work 459–460 Project Work 460–462 Project
Management Charter Manage Project Perform Integrated or Phase
60–79 Knowledge 192–193, Change Control 503,
504–508 229–232, 462–463 508–511
Project Scope Plan Scope Management 211–212 Validate Scope
Management Collect Requirements 212–216 500–501
Define Scope 216–220 Control Scope
Create WBS 220–229 475–476
Project Plan Schedule Management 246 Control Schedule
Schedule Define Activities 249–253 476–480
Management Sequence Activities 253–255
Estimate Activity Durations 255–258
Develop Schedule 259–267
Project Cost Plan Cost Management 329–330 Control Costs 345,
Management Estimate Costs 330–341 476–480
Determine Budget 342–344
Project Quality Plan Quality Management 401–404 Manage Quality Control Quality
Management 404–406, 469–474 406–409, 469–474
Project Plan Resource Management 290–295 Aquire Resources Control Resources 476
Resources Estimate Activity Resources 290 138–141
Management Develop Team 141–157
Manage Team 157–161
Project Com- Plan Communications Management Manage Monitor
munications 188–192 Communications Communications
Management 193–199, 465–467 467–468
Project Risk Plan Risk Management 360–366 Implement Risk Monitor Risks
Management Identify Risks 75, 366–368 Responses 464–465 463–464
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis 75,
368–372
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
372–373
Plan Risk Responses 75, 373–377
Project Plan Procurement Management Conduct Control Procurments
Procurement 431–433, 438–441 Procurements 441
Management 434–438
Project Stake- Identify Plan Stakeholder Engagement 184–186 Manage Stakeholder Monitor Stakeholder
holder Stakehold- Engagement 187–188 Engagement 188
Management ers 75–77,
178–184
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Institute, Inc., 2017): 31.
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Brief Contents
Preface xx
About the Authors xxix
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1.2 Foundational Elements Project Customer Tradeoff Matrix
Charter
4.1 Develop
Integration Project Charter
Assumptions Log 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
5.1 Plan
5.2 Collect Requirements 5.4 Create
Scope Scope
Requirements Documents WBS
Management
Scope Scope
Statement
Network
6.1 Plan Activity List 6.3 Sequence
Schedule Schedule
Activities Milestone List Activities
Management
8.1 Plan
Quality Quality
Management Quality
Mgt.
Plan
9.1 Plan 9.2 Estimate Resource Requirements
Resources Resource Activity
Management RACI Resources
Team
Charter
10.1 Plan
Communication Communications
Management Communications
Matrix 11.2 Identify
Risks
Risk Register
11.1 Plan
11.3 Perform
Risk Risk
Qualitative
11.5 Plan
Management Risk
Risk Analysis Responses
Bid
Documents 11.4 Perform
12.1 Plan Make or Buy Quantitative
Procurement Procurement Analysis Risk Analysis
Management
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Realizing s
s Analysis
Retrospectives
Scope
Baseline with WBS 5.5 Validate
Scope
Scope
5.6 Control Backlog
Scope
6.6 Control
Resource Histogram Schedule Burn
Project Crashing Down/Up
Charts
7.4 Control
Costs Earned Value
Analysis
Quality Quality
8.2 Manage Reports 8.3 Control Measurements
Quality Quality
9.3 Acquire
Resources
Team
9.4 Develop Assignments 9.6 Control
Team Resources
Team
Assessments 9.5 Manage
Team
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
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Contents ix
CHAPTER 2
Project Selection and Prioritization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.1 Strategic Planning Process 33
2.1a Strategic Analysis 33 / 2.1b Guiding Principles 34 / 2.1c Strategic
Objectives 36 / 2.1d Flow-Down Objectives 37
2.2 Portfolio Management 37
2.2a Portfolios 38 / 2.2b Programs 39 / 2.2c Projects and Subprojects 39 /
2.2d Assessing an Organization’s Ability to Perform Projects 42 / 2.2e Identifying
Potential Projects 42 / 2.2f Using a Cost-Benefit Analysis Model to Select
Projects 43 / 2.2g Using a Scoring Model to Select Projects 45 / 2.2h Prioritizing
Projects 48 / 2.2i Resourcing Projects 48
2.3 Securing Projects 49
2.3a Identify Potential Project Opportunities 50 / 2.3b Determine Which Opportunities to
Pursue 50 / 2.3c Prepare and Submit a Project Proposal 51 / 2.3d Negotiate to
Secure the Project 51
PMP/CAPM Study Ideas 52
Summary 52
Key Terms Consistent with PMI Standards and Guides 52
Chapter Review Questions 53
Discussion Questions 53
®
PMBOK Guide Questions 53
Exercises 54
Integrated Example Projects 55
Casa DE PAZ Development Project 56
Semester Project Instructions 56
Project Management in Action 57
References 58
Endnotes 59
CHAPTER 3
Chartering Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.1 What Is a Project Charter? 62
3.2 Why Is a Project Charter Used? 63
3.3 When Is a Charter Needed? 64
3.4 Typical Elements in a Project Charter 65
3.4a Title 65 / 3.4b Scope Overview 65 / 3.4c Business Case 66 /
3.4d Background 66 / 3.4e Milestone Schedule with Acceptance Criteria 66 /
3.4f Risks, Assumptions, and Constraints 67 / 3.4g Resource Estimates 69 /
3.4h Stakeholder List 69 / 3.4i Team Operating Principles 69 / 3.4j Lessons
Learned 70 / 3.4k Signatures and Commitment 70
3.5 Constructing a Project Charter 70
3.5a Scope Overview and Business Case Instructions 70 / 3.5b Background
Instructions 71 / 3.5c Milestone Schedule with Acceptance Criteria
Instructions 72 / 3.5d Risks, Assumptions, and Constraints Instructions 75 /
3.5e Resources Needed Instructions 75 / 3.5f Stakeholder List Instructions 75 /
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Contents xi
CHAPTER 5
Leading and Managing Project Teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
5.1 Acquire Project Team 138
5.1a Preassignment of Project Team Members 139 / 5.1b Negotiation for Project Team
Members 139 / 5.1c On-Boarding Project Team Members 140
5.2 Develop Project Team 141
5.2a Stages of Project Team Development 142 / 5.2b Characteristics of High-Performing
Project Teams 144 / 5.2c Assessing Individual Member Capability 147 /
5.2d Assessing Project Team Capability 148 / 5.2e Building Individual and Project
Team Capability 150 / 5.2f Establishing Project Team Ground Rules 153
5.3 Manage Project Team 157
5.3a Project Manager Power and Leadership 157 / 5.3b Assessing Performance of
Individuals and Project Teams 159 / 5.3c Project Team Management Outcomes 159
5.4 Relationship Building Within the Core Team 160
5.5 Managing Project Conflicts 161
5.5a Sources of Project Conflict 162 / 5.5b Conflict-Resolution Process and
Styles 163 / 5.5c Negotiation 164
5.6 Communication Needs of Global and Virtual Teams 166
5.6a Virtual Teams 166 / 5.6b Cultural Differences 166 / 5.6c Countries and Project
Communication Preferences 167
PMP/CAPM Study Ideas 167
Summary 168
Key Terms Consistent with PMI Standards and Guides 168
Chapter Review Questions 168
Discussion Questions 169
®
PMBOK Guide Questions 170
Integrated Example Projects 170
Casa DE PAZ Development Project 171
Semester Project Instructions 171
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"No."
Grimes looked at the key critically. "H'm! A spring lock. Do you mind
opening this drawer?"
"Why should I open it? It's my private drawer." Betty thought of her
Marcus Aurelius and Bob's precious letter. Why should these sacred things
be dragged out by this vulgar detective?
"Oh, it's your private drawer, is it? Just the same, I must ask you to open
it, Miss Thompson."
"Very well," yielded the girl. "There!" She put the key in the lock and
turned it while Grimes watched her keenly.
"Certainly," bowed the prelate, and he pulled out the drawer to its full
length, then started back with a cry of amazement. "Good heavens!" He
drew forth a bundle of folded banknotes. "It's the stolen money," he
declared. "The exact amount! The identical notes! Five thousand pounds!"
Old Bunchester turned to the girl in deep concern. "My dear Miss
Thompson, this is exceedingly painful, exceedingly compromising. I beg
you most earnestly, in the interest of everyone, in your own interest, to tell
us how it comes that this money is found in your desk. You must explain
this mystery, indeed you must."
"Hold on!" cried Bob, springing forward, his whole face transfigured,
and here it was, in the words of Hiram Baxter, that the boy showed himself
a thoroughbred and took the five-bar gate in one clean leap. "Don't say a
word, Betty. Don't explain anything. You're the finest, pluckiest girl I ever
knew, and right now, without any explanation, I ask you to be my wife."
"Bob!" she cried, and her whole soul was in her eyes.
"It's all right, dear." He stood close beside her and drew her to him
protectingly. "There are two of us now." Then, turning to Grimes: "Go
ahead with your silly little game."
"All very pretty," sniffed the detective, while the bishop looked on in
purple amazement, "but, before we get through with our silly little game
you may not find it as silly as you think."
He strode across the library to the foot of the little stair and pointed to
the mezzanine door. "If Miss Thompson was so confident that Jenny Regan
was a deserving person why did she hide her in that room this morning?"
Grimes fixed his hard gaze on Betty. "Do you deny that you hid Hester
Storm, otherwise known as Jenny Regan, in that room?"
The girl eyed him steadily. "It's true," she said; "but—I can explain it."
Young Baxter started to his feet. "It isn't possible this Storm girl who's
been working here is—Jenny Regan?"
"If your lordship will give me a few moments," she said in a low tone,
"I can make everything clear. You don't mind, Bob? Just a few moments?"
Baxter bowed to her wish. "Of course I don't mind. Come on," he said
to Grimes.
"Not I," refused the latter. "Miss Thompson says she can make things
clear to his lordship. So can I. His lordship's purse was stolen by Hester
Storm, alias Jenny Regan, but this young woman," he swept Betty with a
cruel look, "was an accessory after the fact."
And the bishop said solemnly: "My dear sir, you are making an
incredible accusation. Miss Thompson is a lady—a friend of mine. I knew
her estimable father."
"I can only lay the facts before your lordship," shrugged the detective.
He went to the library door, and, motioning quickly, returned followed by
Hester Storm, who looked neither to the right nor the left, but held her eyes
straight down before her, as if studying the yellowish pattern in the carpet.
Betty watched her in surprise.
"That's a lie!" rang out Betty's swift denial. "Tell them it's a lie. You
must tell them," she appealed frantically to Hester.
But the Storm girl never moved; she never spoke; she never lifted her
eyes from the carpet.
"I wanted to tell the truth," insisted Betty, "but I had promised this poor
girl that I would do nothing until—until the detective had gone." Again she
appealed to Hester. "You know that is true. Tell them it's true."
But the Storm girl stood there like a frozen image, her lips closed, her
eyes cast down. And a sickening terror filled Betty's breast.
"Your lordship must see that there is a strong case against this young
woman." Grimes moved toward Betty with a grim tightening of the lips.
"You'll have to come with me." He laid a hand on her arm.
"Oh, I don't know," retorted Grimes. "I'm an officer of the law and——"
"My dear Mr. Baxter," reasoned the bishop, interposing his portly and
venerable presence between the excited adversaries, "believe me, we must
respect the majesty of the law."
"I tell you to step back," ordered the detective. "And you——" he faced
Miss Thompson, "consider yourself under arrest. If you have anything to
get ready you'd better do it. We start in——" he glanced at his watch, "in
ten minutes."
"I'm sorry, sir, but I've no choice. A crime has been committed, and—
there's evidence enough to hold her on if she was a cousin of the queen."
"Under arrest!" murmured Betty twining her fingers together piteously
and fixing her eyes on Hester.
At this moment the sound of carriage wheels was heard outside. Bob
went quickly to the window.
"It's Father," he said with a movement of relief. "Cheer up, Betty. Dad
will think of something."
A moment later Hiram Baxter entered the room. His face was ashen
gray. He looked broken and ill, but a flicker of the old bright smile spread
over his rugged face as he glanced about the room.
"One moment! Father, did you leave twenty-five thousand dollars in the
drawer of that desk?"
"No, Father, it's not a joke; it's very far from a joke. Did you leave it
there?"
"Twenty-five thousand dollars in that desk? Say, if you knew what I've
been through to-day! I've been scratchin' around down where the avenues
are paved with red-hot bricks, lookin' for twenty-five thousand dollars. And
I didn't find it, either. No, sir, I left no money in that desk. It ain't my desk,
anyway; it's Betty's desk."
"I'll tell him, dear," said Bob. "Father, I—I've asked Betty to be my
wife."
"Well, it ain't that that's makin' ye look like a funeral, is it?" drawled
Hiram. "Go on, now; let me have it."
Betty and Bob spoke at the same time, both pointing scornful fingers at
Grimes.
"Easy now! Not all at once. Say, Bish, you'd better tell it."
"That was stolen from you? Betty Thompson? No, no, no!" thundered
the old man.
"That is how we all feel, but, with the utmost regret I am forced to bear
witness that this exact sum and, I believe, the identical banknotes were
found in Miss Thompson's desk—there."
"Five thousand pounds? What does this mean, Betty? How did that
money get in your desk?"
"I—I don't know," the unhappy girl answered. Grimes looked at his
watch again. "No use of any more talk," he said gruffly. "It's time to start
and——" motioning to Betty, "you'll have to come with me."
"Better not interfere, sir. I've men outside to help me, and—I'm going to
take 'em. Come now." He caught Betty by the arm and marched her, half
fainting, toward the door.
At this moment Hester Storm lifted her eyes, opened her lips, and spoke
in a strange, low tone:
"Wait! You mustn't take her. She didn't steal the money. She had nothing
to do with it. I stole the money. I put it in that desk. I'm the one to take."
"Yes. I meant to steal it or—I meant to steal half of it, but—when you
sang that song about—her promise true, why—I thought how you'd been
good to me, and—trusted me, and—I sneaked in here and left the money.
The drawer was open, and I snapped it shut. Then, when I made my
getaway he pinched me." She turned to Grimes.
The detective lowered his head as if he was studying the girl through his
eyebrows.
"Sure I did. I lied. You know I lied. You don't think I'm stuck on gettin'
sent away for ten years, do ye? But if it's got to be her or me, well, I won't
have her sent away when all she's done is to treat me right and try to save
me. You can take that from Hester Storm."
"That's all right, Bish; but I want to know more about this." Hiram
turned to Hester, who was standing with bowed head and clasped hands.
"Well, fer a girl who talks about stealin'—I guess some o' the honest folks
could take lessons from you. Say, I didn't quite get that about how you
planned to steal half o' this money? Where did the half come in? Why didn't
ye plan to steal all of it?"
Then, little by little, with questions from Grimes and more questions
from Hiram the Storm girl told her story, sometimes in broken words, as her
feelings overpowered her, but in the main simply and bravely and truthfully,
as one who is strengthened by some higher power. She went back to her
childhood and spoke of her sister Rosalie. She told of her wanderings and
waywardness, then of her visit to Ippingford and her meeting with Horatio
Merle. Then, finally, of her efforts to return the money and of the
persecution she had suffered at the hands of Anton. She kept nothing back,
and she made no excuse for herself. She had sinned and it was right that she
should suffer.
As Hester finished her confession every heart went out to her in genuine
sympathy, and Grimes was seen to wipe his eyes.
"I want to say," he remarked, "that I've seen some strange cases in my
time, but when it comes to a woman trying to steal money over again that
she's stolen once so as to give it back—why, that's a new one on me."
"Ye can't ever tell what a woman's goin' to do," nodded Baxter.
"And now, my dear Miss Thompson, how shall I express my great joy
——" The bishop turned to Betty, and was about to launch forth into
another sounding period when Hiram Baxter interrupted him.
"Excuse me, Bish, fer breakin' in on yer speech, but—I've had a bad day
in town, and—if you don't mind takin' the detective into the next room and
finishin' up the details of this purse business with him, why——"
Baxter leaned back in his chair with signs of physical distress—"ye see,
I'm just about all in."
With anxious faces the young lovers stood beside the old man, who
smiled at them wearily.
"Children, I've got bad news fer ye, awful bad news for ye," he said.
"I've made the best fight I could, but that Henderson bunch, they've done
me up. Independent Copper broke twenty points to-day in the New York
market, and—I was long of the stock. My man cabled me the tip to sell, but
I never got it. I never got it. That cable was held up." He bent forward,
resting his big grizzled head on his hands in an attitude of utter despair. "It's
all off, children. It's all off."
One glance showed that something had happened, for her eyes fell on a
murmuring group gathered about Anton and the detective. And there in the
group, calmly smoking a cigarette, was Lionel Fitz-Brown.
"Lionel!" Betty called, addressing him by his Christian name for the
first time in her life. "Please come here—quick." And then, when he stood
before her, very indignantly: "The idea of your not coming to tell me!"
"Oh, Mr. Fitz-Brown," she wrung her hands beseechingly, "please tell
me if you got the cable off by twelve?"
Lionel laid a reflective forefinger along his nose. "By twelve? No. No, I
didn't."
"I go it off five minutes before twelve. Haw, haw, haw!" He fairly
doubled up in his enjoyment of this witticism.
Like a flash, Betty darted back to Hiram, thrilling with this good news.
And at the same moment Grimes entered, holding a cablegram in his hand.
"Beg your pardon, sir," he said respectfully to Baxter, "I've just arrested
your chauffeur, Anton Busch. He's a crook, Slippery Jake, sneak thief and
confidence man, wanted by the police in half dozen cities. He's been
working some deviltry here, sir. I've just found this cablegram on him. It's
addressed to you."
"I'm sorry, sir. I—I'll wait outside," and Grimes withdrew, his hard face
softened by a look of deep pity for the shattered old warrior.
Baxter sat still, looking at the yellow envelope. "Too late!" he muttered.
"Oh, if I'd only got this cablegram in time!"
"Guardy, I want to tell you something," Betty began, but Hiram paid no
attention.
"Nothing matters now," he went on bitterly. "I mustn't say that. I'm
happy about you two. Betty! Bob!" He joined their hands and held them
strongly. "It's what I've always dreamed of, but—I wanted to leave ye well
fixed and now——" The tears were coursing down his grizzled cheeks.
"We're ruined—ruined."
"No, no! We're not ruined. You mustn't say that, Guardy." The girl dared
not promise anything, for she did not know the result of her effort, but she
pointed hopefully to the unopened cablegram. "Why don't you open this?
Why don't you read it?"
He shook his head despairingly. "I know what it is. It's the notice that
I've been sold out and—everything's gone. God! If I'd only known! If I
could only have given the order to sell—even a few thousand shares."
With a listless movement Hiram ripped open the cable envelope and
drew out the yellow sheet. Betty thought her heart would stop beating as
she watched his face. Slowly the look of amazement came. He rubbed his
eyes and read the message again. Then he sprang to his feet with a great cry.
"What! It ain't possible! Listen to this!" In his excitement, Hiram almost
shouted the words written there before him. "'Congratulate you on your
splendid nerve. Executed order at once. Sold fifty thousand shares at top of
market and closed out with twenty points profit. Gramercy.' You hear that,
Bob? Read it! Am I crazy or—— No, no! There's something wrong. I didn't
show any splendid nerve. I didn't cable any order to sell fifty thousand
shares. There's some mistake."
"You?" gasped Hiram. "You cabled the order to sell fifty thousand
shares of Independent Copper stock for my account? Fifty thousand
shares?"
It was several moments before Betty could speak, and then, laughing
and crying hysterically, she told what she and Lionel had done.
"I should say it was splendid nerve," said Bob. And folding his big,
strong arms around her, "Betty, you darling!" he whispered.
She lay there happy in his arms and, looking up into his eyes with all
the fondness of her soul, answered shyly and sweetly, "Bob, my love."
And Hiram Baxter, wiping away his tears of joy, muttered to himself
(since no one else was paying any attention), "Holy cats! Is there anything a
woman won't do?"
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