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A few steps further on and I reached a clearing in the wood and stood on a little promontory of rising ground which commanded the prettiest view of Greenwater lake. A platform of wood was built out from the bank, to be used for bathing by good swimmers who were not afraid of a plunge into deep water. I stood on the platform and looked round me.
That forced the brokers to buy of confederates; but when they shipped on the stock to the Union Securities Company, expecting to get sixty cents a share for it, Lyman was gone. It had not cost him much. He owed the newspapers of this country $150,000 for advertising, which went unpaid. He reaped $300,000 profits. Boston Greenwater Copper stock can still be found in many a stocking of humble folk.
The accession of wealth made no difference in his habits of life: he was a lonely old man, estranged from his other relatives, when my mother and I returned to England. If I could only succeed in pleasing Mr. This was one consideration that influenced us in leaving America. There was another in which I was especially interested that drew me back to the lonely shores of Greenwater Broad.
When the hubbub of voices which the announcement of the rescue had created, had subsided somewhat, the players resumed their games and amid the clink of chips and glasses, could now and then be heard from some gamester, "Hold on there, that's mine!" Mary Greenwater went to the faro table.
Just then, some one came in and announced that the two men had been rescued from under the snow-slide. The games stopped and the men at the tables ordered their drinks from the waiters. The dance in the adjoining room stopped in the middle of a set, while men and women crowded about the bar. Only three in that room did not rejoice at the news Mary Greenwater, Coyote Jim and Rayder.
Where the map showed the end of the journey there was the rude drawing of a cliff set on edge and below it was marked "Gold." Carson pondered over the quaint document for many days. The Indian marriage with Mary Greenwater had become a matter of regret. While the woman loved him, yet her love was like a new bowie knife, to be handled with care.
He wanted to delay the meeting with Mary Greenwater as long as possible. If she was only a man, ah, that would be different! It would then be knife to knife, or bullet to bullet he would not shrink. But she was a woman, an educated Indian woman upon whom society had some claim, and she had some claim upon it.
"Here's to Mary Greenwater, Queen of the Cherokee Indians!" "Rah fer Mary Greenwater," chattered old Amos, holding his reeling form up by the bar rail. The invitation was even too much for Rayder, strong as had been his resolution to let the stuff alone. The temptation of free drinks was too great, he imagined he needed something and called for gin.
I don't know what infatuation it is that makes me trifle in this way with old recollections, which affect me painfully in my present position. We were talking of the child's health; let us go back to that." It was not easy to return to the topic of her child's health. She had revived my curiosity on the subject of her association with Greenwater Broad.
I determine to leave the hotel privately the next morning before Sir James is out of his bedroom. To what destination I am to betake myself is naturally the next question that arises, and this also I easily decide. During the last days of my mother's life we spoke together frequently of the happy past days when we were living together on the banks of the Greenwater lake.
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