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Although the town can't afford to pay Colton's prices. I believe that man would have raised his bid to a thousand, if I had let him. As a matter of business and nothing else, I suppose I am foolish not to push the price as high as possible and then sell. The land is worthless to us." "I know. But this isn't just a matter of business, is it? And we DON'T need the money.
They parted at the foot of the mountain, and as Isabel approached her own house she saw Anabel Colton's trap tied to the garden gate. She set her teeth and slackened the pace of her horse, but Anabel and Miss Boutts had seen her, and leaned over the edge of the veranda, calling to her impatiently. She gave her horse a cut with the whip and rode rapidly to the stable.
Colton's Illustrated Cabinet Atlas and Descriptive Geography. Maps by G.W. COLTON. Text by R.S. FISHER. New YORK: J.H. Colton & Co. 4to. pp. 400. This work meets an acknowledged want; it combines in one convenient volume most of the desirable features of the larger atlases, being full enough in detail for all ordinary purposes, without being cumbersome and costly.
She says three of those 'orrid fishcarts have gone by in the last hour, sir, and they are making her very nervous. That's all, sir." "Tell her I've bought it," snapped the head of the house. "Get out." The butler obeyed orders. Colton turned to me. "You heard that, Paine," he said. "That's my reason, the principal one. I bought this place principally on account of Mrs. Colton's health.
"Five thousand dollars!" . . . "Carver won't do." . . . "I will have the Lane some time or other." . . . "Five thousand dollars!" . . . "Next time you go shooting." . . . "Friends!" . . . "Five thousand dollars!" Oh, this was a nightmare! I must wake up before it got any worse. Mother was the only one to whom I told the whole story of my experience in the "tempest" and of Colton's call.
That young Carver feller shook the dust the mud, I mean of our roads off his shoes this mornin'. He went away on the up train." Here was news. "The up train?" I repeated. "You mean he has gone for good?" "I should call it for good, for our good, anyhow. Yes, he's gone. Went to the depot in Colton's automobile. His majesty went with him fur's the platform.
Colton's which I had overheard on the night of the fishing trip, although it revealed to me, as I believed, my real standing in the minds of my neighbors, whatever they might pretend when in my company, was, after all, only a minor detail. I knew that I must break off my acquaintance with this girl. By all that was sensible and sane it must be broken off.
"Oh," with a scornful sniff, "I see. I'm on to you. You're just hangin' out for a big price. I might have known it. You're on Colton's side, after all." I rose. I was angry now. "I told you price had nothing to do with it," I said, sharply. "I am on no one's side. The town is welcome to use the Lane; that I have told you already. There is nothing more to be said." He shook his head.
The young lady came closer to me. "Oh!" she exclaimed. I had an idea. The flash had made our surroundings as light as day for an instant and across the road I saw Sylvanus Snow's old house, untenanted, abandoned and falling to decay. I took Miss Colton's arm. "Come!" I said. She hung back. "Where are you going?" she asked. "Just across the road to that old house.
"Glad to have you, if you'll come. Tell him to come, Mabel." Miss Colton's invitation was not over-cordial. "I presume Mr. Paine knows what is best for him to do," she said. "Of course we shall be glad to have him, if he will come."
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