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"Gentlemen," it read: "Will you kindly take immediate steps to find Miss Sarah Burch and pay over to her twenty-five thousand dollars from my father's residuary estate. I am entirely satisfied that this was his wish. I am returning to Cambridge to-day. If necessary you can communicate with me there. "Yours very truly,
And while our innocent young Launcelot trudging uptown hardened his heart against Sadie Burch, by chance that lady figured in a short but poignant conversation between Mr. Ephraim Tutt and Miss Minerva Wiggin on the threshold of the room from which he had just departed. Miss Wiggin never trusted anybody but herself to lock up the offices, not even Mr.
She had seen the bronze of his face turn to white. How gaunt and worn he looked. Older he appeared, with deeper lines and whiter hair. His jaw quivered. "Carley Burch, so it was you?" he queried, hoarsely. "Glenn, I reckon it was," she replied. "I bought your Deep Lake ranch site.
"That must have been Payson Clifford," answered Mr. Tutt. "What were the paternal wishes?" "Mr. Tutt found a letter with the will in which the father asked the son to give twenty-five thousand dollars to a Miss Sadie Burch." "Miss Sadie Burch!" repeated Mr. Tutt. "And who is she?" "Nobody knows," said Miss Wiggin. "But whoever she is, our responsibility stops with advising Mr.
The new Revenue Acts provided for a Board called the Commissioners of Customs, who were empowered to collect duties along a truly imperial line of coast, extending from Labrador to the Gulf of Mexico. They were appointed to reside in Boston. They were five in number, Charles Paxton, Henry Hulton, William Burch, John Robinson, and John Temple.
Wallace had faded into complete invisibility at the time when she fell in love with Captain Burch and quarreled with her father about him. She couldn't remember afterward whether he had even been on the scene or not.
Yet an honest consciousness told her that as time flew by she feared more and more to tell him that he was wasting his life there and that she could not bear it. Still was he wasting it? Once in a while a timid and unfamiliar Carley Burch voiced a pregnant query. Perhaps what held Carley back most was the happiness she achieved in her walks and rides with Glenn. She lingered because of them.
A late discovery plainly evinces cinnabar. The coarser metals are in gross abundance. Lately evidences of bituminous coal have been detected. My theory has ever been that coal is a ligneous formation. I told Col. I repeated the same doctrine to the exultant coal discoverers of Humboldt. I talked with my friend Captain Burch on the subject.
In thirty seconds he was sober as a judge and a sober judge at that. "Mr. Tutt," he said in quite a different tone of voice. "I've been talking pretty big, I guess, bigger than I really am. The fact is I've got a problem of my own that's bothering me a lot." Mr. Tutt nodded understandingly. "You mean Sadie Burch." "Yes." "Well, what's the problem?
"To go through that sandstorm without one kick one knock at my West!" "Glenn, I always think of what Flo says the worst is yet to come," replied Carley, trying to hide her unreasonable and tumultuous pleasure at words of praise from him. "Carley Burch, you don't know yourself," he declared, enigmatically. "What woman knows herself? But do you know me?"
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