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"The saga of Silver Bend" by J. E. Grinstead is a novel written in the early 20th century. It likely unfolds as a Western set in and around the frontier town of Silver Bend, where boomtown pressures pit miners, ranchers, and power-seekers against one another. Expect a steady, principled protagonist and a strong-willed partner navigating greed, lawlessness, and community loyalties in a rugged landscape. The opening of the provided text races through a high‑speed farce inside a grand European bank office, where the tireless chairman, Norrison, is about to depart on holiday when Lydia arrives with a telegram: her wealthy American parents land in an hour, and she calmly confesses she has secretly married—and is expecting a child with—Antal, a penniless taxi driver. Fearing social and business ruin, Norrison launches a minute‑by‑minute makeover: he summons lawyers, executives, doctors, tailors, a hotel, and the press office; orders fine clothes, a luxury suite, first‑class travel to Sankt‑Moritz, and club memberships; engineers Antal’s exit from the socialist party and his taxi job (with a medical note); and even arranges for a nobleman to adopt him for a grand name. Lydia fiercely backs the plan, steamrolling Antal’s scruples as he’s shaved, suited, renamed, and prepped to be installed as a company director in place of the current incumbent. The scene crackles with rapid orders, ringing phones, and comic precision, all under the relentless countdown to the parents’ arrival. (This is an automatically generated summary.)