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But even his departure did not arouse the interest that was bestowed upon the removal of the James Blaisdells to Plainville; and this, in turn, did not cause so great an excitement as did the news that Miss Maggie Duff had inherited fifty thousand dollars and had gone to Chicago to spend it.
All of this the Blaisdells heard from Miss Maggie in addition to seeing it in the newspapers. But very soon, from Miss Maggie, they began to learn more. Before a fortnight had passed, Miss Flora received another letter from Chicago that sent her flying as before to her sister-in-law.
It was in one of these papers that he found this paragraph: There seems to be really nothing more that can be learned about the extraordinary Stanley G. Fulton-Blaisdell affair. The bequests have been paid, the Blaisdells are reveling in their new wealth, and Mr. Fulton is still unheard from. There is nothing now to do but to await the opening of the second mysterious packet two years hence.
Not but that she had received letters from Miss Maggie before, but that the contents of this one made it at once, to all the Blaisdells, "the letter." Miss Flora began to read it, gave a little cry, and sprang to her feet. Standing, her breath suspended, she finished it. Five minutes later, gloves half on and hat askew, she was hurrying across the common to her brother Frank's home.
It was like setting a match to one of those Fourth- of-July flower-pot sky-rocket affairs. That question was the match that set him going, and thereafter he was a gushing geyser of names and dates. I never heard anything like it. He began at the Blaisdells, but skipped almost at once to the Blakes there were a lot of them near us. In five minutes he had me dumb from sheer stupefaction.
"It probably is some other Blaisdells. Well, anyhow, if it is, we won't have to pay that inheritance tax. We can save that much." "Save! Well, what do we lose?" demanded her husband apoplectically. At this moment the rattling of the front-door knob and an imperative knocking brought Mrs. Jane to her feet. "There's Hattie, now, and that door's locked," she cried, hurrying into the hall.
Carson was as clever a manipulator of capitalists as her husband. There were a few of the more important people of the city, such as Alexander Hitchcock, Ferdinand Dunster, the Polot families, the Blaisdells, the Anthons. There were also a few of the more distinctly "smart" people, and a number who might be counted as social possibilities.
She just loves to see her name in print parties, and club banquets, and where she pours, you know. But maybe you don't take women, too." "Oh, yes, if they are Blaisdells, or have married Blaisdells." "Oh! That's where we'd come in, then, isn't it? Mellicent and I? And Frank, my husband, he'll like it, too, if you tell about the grocery store. And of course you would, if you told about him.
But it was all so new and complicated, and everybody was always talking at once, so! No wonder, indeed, that Miss Flora was quite breathless with it all. By the time the Blaisdells found themselves able to pay attention to Hillerton, or to anything outside their own astounding personal affairs, they became suddenly aware of the attention Hillerton was paying to THEM. The whole town was agog.
And I met Jim Blaisdell yesterday and he shook my hand, after I had held it in front of his eyes where he couldn't help seeing it, and had the nerve to tell me he hoped things weren't as bad with us as he had heard." "I never liked the Blaisdells," declared Caroline, indignantly. "Neither did I. Neither do most people.
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