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Land was bought and sold and resold, new projects discussed, new properties appraised, new mortgage loans negotiated; and solely because of his desire to remain near Gerald, this sort of thing might have continued indefinitely. But Neergard broke his word to him. And one morning, before he left his rooms at Mrs.
Besides, I will give you a mortgage upon the proceeds of my contract during the whole year, so that, should I fail to take up these bills, you could seize my cattle in Trieste, which is the only road through which they can come."
"No doubt I am, but I've seen a little of mortgage jobbing. You must try to overlook it. I did not mean to offend." He went out, and, while Colonel Barrington sat down before a sheaf of accounts, sprang into a waiting sleigh. "It's no use, we've got to go through," he said to the lad who shook the reins.
The deal was quickly completed, and the Captain and his Norwegian crew willingly consented to remain in charge of the Fanny; and, in order to enable her to sail under the Norwegian flag, as a precaution against possible confiscation in British waters, it was arranged that the Captain should be the nominal purchaser, giving Crawford a mortgage for her full value.
His hip was down, but it didn't stop him from flyin'. As a three-year-old he paced the Nashville half mile track in one-one flat, an' though they offered me then an' there a thousand dollars for Ben Butler, I told 'em no, he was God's colt an' I didn't need but half of that to raise the mortgage, an' he'd do that the first time he turned round in a race.
"Eh, my dear?" exclaimed Miss Priscilla, pausing with her needle in mid-air, "did you say hatefully?" "Yes." "Anthea!" "I hate him, Aunt Priscilla!" "Eh? My dear!" "That was why I sent him away." "You sent him away?" "Yes." "But Anthea why?" "Oh Aunt Priscilla! surely you never believed in the fortune? Surely you guessed it was his money that paid back the mortgage, didn't you, Aunt, didn't you?"
Well then you see " continued Lysander, groping for his forgotten place in the recital. "Oh, yes, I got up and told 'im 'Addyoce, as if I s'posed he was through, and started off; an' he called me back, an' 'lowed mebbe the old folks didn't have much loose change lyin' 'round to put into water improvements; an' I told 'im I didn't know, I reckoned you could mortgage the ranch.
His conversation during the inspection was, for the most part, sniffs and grunts, and it was not until it was ended and they stood together at the gate, that he spoke to the point, and then only because his companion insisted. "Well!" said Thankful. Mr. Cobb "weeded." "Eh?" he said. "That's what I say eh? What are you goin' to do about that mortgage, Mr. Cobb?" More weeding.
Nothing could now prevent the closing of the net of the last mortgage about them; and the uttermost Cosmo could hope for thereafter was simply to keep his father and Grizzie alive to the end of their natural days. Shelter was secure, for the castle was free.
"And if there's any possibility of the foreclosure of the mortgage, it is only right that you run all the risk of loss not myself." "Certainly," repeated Orde. "From another point of view," went on Newmark, "you are practically mortgaging your interest in the Boom Company for seventy-five thousand dollars.
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