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I have helped to make the fortunes of other men, but I failed when I engaged in speculations for myself. I had prospects, it is true, but I didn't know but Colton had arranged his will so as to prevent my using his money; and I had reason to fear that my wife was in touch with him, "'Has she been to see you? the reporter asked.
Mr. Davis telephoned that Yes, what is it?" There had been a knock at the door. It opened and the butler appeared. "A telegram for Mr. Colton, Miss Mabel," he said. "Give it to me. Tell the man to wait, Johnson. It is from Mr. Davis," she exclaimed, turning to me. "I am sure it is. Yes. See!" She handed me the yellow telegram. I read the following aloud: "James W. Colton, "Denboro, Mass.
Captain Colton, with his cigarette poised between his thumb and forefinger, looked John up and down. "Good!" he said. "Frank statement of truth I knew already. Nothing for you to be ashamed of. If girl beautiful and noble as Mademoiselle Julie Lannes looked at me as she has looked at you I'd break down walls and run gantlets to reach her. Go, John, boy.
Colton had not moved a muscle since the night of the murder. She lay looking straight at the ceiling, and in her eyes was an expression that seemed constantly to repeat, "My body is dead, but my mind is alive." Once every week the pastor of her church came to see her. He was an old man, threatened with palsy, and had long ago ceased to find pleasure in the appetites and vanities of this life.
The women who had accomplished so much, having literally transformed Rosewater from a broken-down pioneer country town into one of the prettiest spots in California had by no means despaired; and when Mrs. Colton finished her report, Mrs. Leslie remarked: "Our boulevard may be nearer than you think. Mr.
The Strangers halted with the rest, and John, coming out of the red rage that had possessed his soul, saw that Captain Colton was uninjured and that Carstairs and Wharton, who stood near him, had only scratches. "Grazed four times," said Carstairs happily. "The bullets knew a good man when they saw him, and turned aside just in time to give him slight but honorable wounds."
Colton write to you for?" "He says he wants to see me." "See you? What for?" "Don't know. Perhaps he wants to borrow money." "Borrow ! I believe you're crazy!" "No, I'm tolerably sane. There! there! don't look at me like that. Here's his letter. Read it, if you want to." Lute's fingers were so eager to grasp that letter that they were all thumbs.
He did not, however, and we crossed the boundary line of my property and entered the Colton grounds. As we drew nearer to the house I was surprised to see how large it was. When the Atwaters owned it I was an occasional caller there, for old Major Atwater was fond of shooting and sometimes borrowed my decoys. But, since it changed hands, I had not been nearer to it than the Lane.
I'm going to join with you to crush this Yankee and put the niggers in their places. They are getting impudent around here; they need a lesson and, by gad! they'll get one they'll remember." "Now, see here, Colton, nothing rash," the Colonel charged him, warningly. "Don't stir up needless trouble; but well, things must change." Colton rose and shook his head.
"I don't propose to play any losing game, and if the Democratic party goes by the board, T. R. Colton doesn't follow. And if a third party came in to stay it would have to have a boss " "Not your sort." "Oh, well, time enough." Colton's ill-humor was now somnolent under some two pounds of peanuts. He rose and shook hands with Gwynne.
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