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"Will you leave that subject out of the question?" I again interrupted. "If not, there will be trouble between the houses of Sanford and Livingstone." "Why can't you two be what Daisy calls 'common-sensible, and tell what is at the bottom of all this?" said Milly, joining for the first time in the conversation.
At last there was a ring at the outer door, and Sanford showed her in. She entered merrily, bringing with her a whiff of the latest Paris perfume, and grasping his hand, cried: "Well, are you feeling any happier?" "Happier!" he echoed. "Why, of course!" "And have you had Lady Teesdale's letter?" "Yes. And I've accepted." "Good. We'll have a real good time.
Yes, suh. "'Purple 'n' white! I says. 'Them's the colors of the McVay stable! "'Ah was breeding stake hawsses, suh, says ole man Sanford, 'when his mothah's milk was not yet dry upon the lips of young McVay. "When the silks come, I picks out a real soft spot for Trampfast. It's a six furlong ramble fur has-beens 'n' there's sure a bunch of kioodles in it! Most of 'em ought to be on crutches.
'Jim won't bet a dollar on him unless he's got the hop in him. "'Ah shall write to him, says ole man Sanford, 'n' beats it down the track toward the gates. "I don't see him fur over a week. I figger he's sore at me fur dopin' hosses. It's a funny thing but, I'm a son-of-a-gun if I don't miss the ole duck. From the way they talk I see the boys kind-a miss him, too.
As they had arrived in Sanford on Monday, Marjorie's mother had decided to give her daughter an opportunity to accustom herself to her new home and surroundings before allowing her to enter the high school. So the day for Marjorie's initial appearance in "The Sanford High School for Girls" had been set for the following Monday. It was now Friday afternoon.
Together they walked to the gate, and there they stood. Ray expatiating on the many good points of his pet and comrade, Miss Sanford stroking the sorrel's arching neck and velvet nozzle, and looking volumes of adulation into his intelligent eyes.
"All this trouble's wearing him out, and he won't have a hired girl if we could catch one. There's a pile of trouble, San. He has rows every day. Had a hell of a row with Percival yesterday." "Who's this Percival? Onnie was cursing him out last night," Sanford recollected. "He's an awful big hog who's pulling logs at the runway. Used to be a plumber in Australia. Swears like a sailor.
A beautiful expression came over Eunice's face she smiled a little and the love-light in her eyes was unmistakable. "I shall never lose my temper again," she said, softly, and Mason Elliott believed her. "Another big debtor to Sanford is Mr. Patterson," he went on, forcing himself to calm his riotous pulses, and continue his business talk. "How is that man mixed into our affars?"
'He'll be seein' pink elephants in a minute. "I don't find ole man Sanford till they're at the post. He's standin' by the fence at the wire. "The start's bein' held up by the Tramp. He's sure puttin' on a show the hop's got him as wild as a eagle. It's too far away fur the ole man to see good, so I don't put him hep it's his hoss that's cuttin' the didoes. "Just then Chick comes up.
Instead of being a freshman in dear old Franklin, she was to enter the freshman class in Sanford High School, where she didn't know a solitary girl, and where she was sure she would be too unhappy for words.
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