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He not only refused to prosecute Sydney, but wanted to settle a portion of his fortune on the Pells. "You are fully entitled to this," he said. "It is through you that my boy has been restored to me." But Mrs. Pell was firm as Rex had been firm. "It is enough that you allow us the time in which to make our plans," she returned. Rex never murmured at the prospect of Batemans.
It is summer again, but in Batemans the town in which we now find our friends, the Pells, this banner season of the year, does not deck itself with all the attractions that caused it to be eagerly looked forward to in Marley. There are no creek, no hills, no trees, nothing but board walks, board houses, board fences, and the "boarders we take," as Rex would conclude the sentence.
The little Batemans must have obscured their comparatively dim lustre, flourishing at the same period and with a larger command of the pictorial poster and the other primitive symbols in Broadway such posters and such symbols as they were at that time! the little Batemans who were to be reserved, in maturer form, for my much later and more grateful appreciation.
The driver, hearing of a big strike that had been made at a mine some sixty miles away, threw up his position at once and started off to try to get rich at a hand stroke. And the boys were forced to throw themselves into the breach until another man could be obtained in his place. This is the sort of thing they had trained themselves to expect since coming to Batemans.
And being vpon our way, at a certaine towne called Ardouil, we chanced to barter nine pieces of karsies with those merchants for fourescore and foure batemans of cynamom, selling the karsies at one hundred and fiftie shawghs the piece.
And these are the same in summer as they are in winter, except that they are all hotter and more unpleasant than ordinary. Batemans is a far Western town. A friend of Mrs. Pell's was putting up a hotel there at the time of her trouble. He had appealed to her for some woman to run it. "I don't want a man," he wrote. "There are too many men out here now.
"Well, that's polite, I'm sure," laughed Miles, "Can't you imagine that Batemans may be our objective point?" "No, because I'm certain you can't be interested in saw mills, and that's the only thing that brings people here." "But I can be interested in you, can't I, Rex? I've missed you terribly. That great house seems so lonely with only three of us in it."
Not even when the dreary aspect of the place, with mud two feet deep in its streets, first dawned upon him. He felt that he ought to rejoice rather that his new lot was to be cast so far away from all his old friends. There were no educational facilities in Batemans; at least none of which the twins could avail themselves. Then they found plenty to do in helping their mother.
They rented two of the best rooms in the house, had awnings put up at the windows and wicker furniture sent on from Denver. Mr. Darley took frequent trips to neighboring towns. It was understood by the gossips at Batemans that he was a large Eastern capitalist, looking about for profitable mining investments. July, August and half of September passed, and still the Darleys remained.
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