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"I always said when that bend went dry, I'd leave the country, but I can't," Jim Shirley said doggedly. "Why not?" Champers inquired. "Because I can't throw away the only property I have in the world, and I haven't the means to get away, let alone start up anywhere else." "We're all in the same boat," Bennington declared.
"The real story of the plains is the story of the second generation; the real romance here will be Thaine Aydelot's romance, for he was born here." So Virginia Aydelot had declared on the day she had gone to visit the Bennington baby, Josephine, and coming home had met Asher with little Thaine beside Mercy Pennington's grave.
But say, Jack," Bob demanded, in the alarm of local partisanship which apprehends that it may unwittingly have served an outside interest, "did you want us to dope it out that you were an invalid? We ain't been getting you in wrong, I hope?" "Not a bit!" answered Jack with a reassuring slap on Bob's shoulder. "Was his name Bennington?" "Yes, that's it."
At last he raised his head slowly and turned to her with an air of decision. "Mary " he began. At that moment there became audible a sudden rattle of stones below the Rock, and at the same instant a harsh voice broke in rudely upon their conversation. Bennington instinctively put his finger on his lips to enjoin silence, and peered cautiously over the edge of the dike.
"I don't go near Bennington now; I don't say anything to him about the interest money; I don't want to disturb him, or to set him a thinking. He not only promises to pay the interest, but he promises to pay it on the first day of July. If he don't do it at the right time, I shall foreclose. I believe the man is ruined now; and the longer I wait, the more money I shall lose.
I've already had luncheon that is to say, I've just had breakfast. You can more fully appreciate the significance of my call when I tell you that I came to you directly from the breakfast table. No, sir, the object of this visit is strictly business." Bennington Cole gravely buttoned up his coat and thrust both hands into his pockets. Mr. Wilkinson smiled buoyantly.
At length, however, believing themselves many miles beyond the rendezvous of Peters's corps, who were understood to have been selected as the pioneers of the expedition, they emerged from the woods, and fell into the main road leading up the winding Walloomscoik to the village of Bennington.
From what I have heard about that fight with Leddy Dr. Bennington told me I can appreciate why he did not care to meet you." He laughed, more genially this time, in the survey of his son's broad shoulders. "I fear there is something of the old ancestor's devil in you when you get going!" he added.
Did you think that a creature who could fly to the tops of the rocks was a mere girl? Not at all." "What do you mean?" asked the easily bewildered Bennington. "What I say. I'm not a girl." "What are you then?" "A sun fairy." "A sun fairy?" "Yes; a real live one. See that cloud over toward the sun? The nice downy one, I mean. That's my couch. I sleep on it all night.
But for the broad collar on McQuade's dog the animal would have been throttled then and there. McQuade lost his temper and his discretion. He kicked Jove cruelly in the side, at the very moment when Warrington had succeeded in breaking the grip. Bennington thrust McQuade back violently, and he would have fallen but for the dense pack bolstering him up. "I'll remember that kick, Mr.
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