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You see, as things are, we are bound to lose the whole place, lock, stock, and barrel, to Packard; you don't want to do that, do you?" "Go on," said Terry. Her face was suddenly as white as the hands from which she was swiftly, nervously stripping her gauntlets. "Just what is Blenham's generous offer, Dad?" "It's one of two things." He hesitated and licked his lips.
"Well, when Phil Packard died he did it like he'd done everything else, like he had lived, makin' a man think he was in a hurry to get a job over an' done with. Ridin' horseback one week an' the nex' week sendin' for me in there." He jerked his head toward a remote room of the big house. "An' he talked to me then about you." Packard waited for him to go on, offering no comment.
"My political principles!" Oh, the irony of his voice, the triumph in his laugh! "And what do you know of them? What I have said. Mayor Packard, your education as a politician has yet to be completed before you will be fit for the governorship of a state.
Some scientists place hearing in the antennae, others in a little organ on each side the base of the abdomen. Packard writes: "The eyes are large and globose and vary in the distance apart in different families": but fails to tell what I want to know most: the range and sharpness of their vision.
I was resolved to give no hint of the information imparted to me by Mrs. Packard. "The Misses Quinlan, the two maiden ladies who live next door to Mayor Packard." "I don't know them," said I truthfully. "Very worthy women," Mr. Robinson assured me.
"Yes," Sheldon interrupted, "but it was according to the formula of the rule of the weak that Packard ruled. And what was the result? I am still alive. Packard is dead. He was unswervingly kind and gentle to his boys, and his boys waited till one day he was down with fever. His head is over on Malaita now. They carried away two whale-boats as well, filled with the loot of the store.
"An' Number Ten Ranch," added Royce quickly. "And Number Ten Ranch," Packard agreed. "If we can get away with it." "Meaning what? How get away with it?" "It's mortgaged to the hilt, it seems. I don't know for how much yet. The mortgage and a lot of accrued interest has to be paid off. Just how big a job we've got to find out." "Seen your grandfather yet?" "No.
Steve Packard, filling his eyes with the two rows of similar shacks, hesitated briefly. Until now he had always gone to the Packard side; when a boy he had regarded the rival section with high contempt, looking upon it as inferior, sneering at it as a thoroughbred might lift lip at an unworthy mongrel.
"Tell me when," and Packard held the roll in a tight-shut hand, "and I'll leave them with you." "Las' Saturday night," said Hodges, after a brief moment of reflection. Packard tossed the little roll to the bar. "There's the money. Tell Blenham I thought it was his!"
The murmur of voices died away suddenly; it was intensely still for a moment; then there was a scrambling, a scraping of heavy boots and dragging benches, and the cook's door snapped back against the outside wall, the opening filled with hulking forms, as men crowded to see what was happening. What they saw was the nose of Blenham's gun in Steve's hand. "Back up there," shouted Packard.
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