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But you cannot treat them like white men who do not know their ancestors Dad's letter was the best I have ever got from him and he had always better write when he is tired. I will always keep it. DENVER March 7, 1892.
"Why! dad's running around the house like a mad man this morning, swearing all sorts of vengeance on the thief, whoever he or she is I suppose it must be a he, though, because women don't steal " "Hold on, hold on a minute," commanded Betty, her hands over her ears. "How do you expect me to find out what has happened if you won't come to the point?"
Well, you can receive her yourself. I don't want any of her old alms! I won't be here!" "Oh yes, you will!" "Oh no, I won't!" "You can't be as ill-mannered as that!" "You talk to me of manners! Why, I've seen manners in your gang that would disgrace a brakeman and a lunch-counter girl on one of dad's railroads." Her father already had railroads!
Then they lay chatting quietly till Miss Beverley came on her nightly round of dormitory inspection. "Only a few weeks more and we shall be saying good-bye to the ivy room," said Loveday. "I shall be back in Liverpool; and where will you be, Diana?" "Crossing the Atlantic, I hope. Dad's had our names down for passages for ever so long, and they told him our turn might come early in August.
"Well, if you must 'ave it," said Beale, "we're a-gettin' very near my ole dad's place, and I can't make me mind up." "I thought we was settled we'd go to see 'im." "I dunno. If 'e's under the daisies I shan't like it I tell you straight I shan't like it. But we're a long-lived stock p'raps 'e's all right. I dunno." "Shall I go up by myself to where he lives and see if he's all right?"
Dad said if Rockefeller could raise hair by the sunshine method he could, and he threw his straw hat overboard, and began to fish in the sun for fish and hair. Well, you'd a dide to see dad's head after the blisters began to raise. First, he thought the blisters was hair, but when we got back to the hotel and he looked in a glass, he see it wasn't hair worth a cent.
Among this band was a son of the principal sachem of the Algonquins, who was acknowledged heir apparent to his dad's vermin, and who assumed the airs of a man of great consequence, in virtue of his prospective dignity. The father bore a respectable character; the son was a sot. In consideration of his furs, however, I paid him some little attentions, though much against my inclination.
When I was fourteen I was Dad's actual housekeeper, with entire power over the servants, and I am very proud of that period of my life. And when I was sixteen we three girls were all sent up to California to Mills Seminary, which was quite fashionable and stifling. How we used to long for home!
For the first time since I left school, I was under orders; and the foreman certainly tried to obey dad's mandate and treat me just as he would have treated any other stranger. I could give it up, of course but I hope never to see the day when I can be justly called a quitter. First, we were rounding up horses saddlers that were to be ridden in the round-up proper.
"I don't expect you to act like a gentleman; but you might at least be less of a cad." "I ain't a cad!" I muttered. "What else are you when you listen behind doors to things you're not expected to hear? When you talk like a gutter snipe and act " "You're a liar!" I shouted. "Liar! Liar! Liar!" Dad's face got purple like it always does when he's mad, and his hands shook.
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