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He kissed Phrony for her wheedling, but told her that women-folks didn't understand about business. So Wickersham had to leave without getting the lands. The influx of strangers was so great now at Gumbolt that there was a stream of vehicles running between a point some miles beyond Eden, which the railroad had reached, and Gumbolt.
Keith sprang straight after him, and the two went crashing through the underbrush, down the steep side of the hill. The inmates of the stage poured out into the road, all talking together, and Wickersham, with the aid of Jake Dennison, succeeded in quieting the horses.
Well, he hates Wickersham, and he up and told her t'other night 't Wickersham was the biggest rascal in New York; that he had 'most broke his father and had put the stock of this here new mine on the market, an' that he didn't have coal enough in it to fill his hat; that he'd been down in it an' that the coal all come out of our mine." Keith's eyes glistened. "Exactly."
J. Quincy made him think 'twas against Wickersham, and he was that drunk he didn't know what a fool they was makin' of him. You are going away?" she said suddenly. "Oh, only for a very little while I am going off about a little business for a short time. I expect to be back very soon." "Ah! I heard I am glad to hear that you are coming back."
Outspokenness had never been one of Archie Wickersham's boldest characteristics, so Allison assisted him now. Allison liked a man to be outspoken. "Well," he demanded, "let's hear it. What's on your mind?" There are times when hatred will betray 'most any man. Hatred now led Wickersham to speak not wisely but with venom. "I want you to refuse to renew your name on the East Coast notes," he said.
They had just crossed the little creek which dashed over the rocks toward the river, and had begun to ascend another hill, when Wickersham, who had been talking about his drag, was pleased to have Keith offer him the reins. He took them with some pride, and Keith dived down into the boot. When he sat up again he had a pistol in his hand. "It was just about here that that 'hold-up' occurred."
In the former it had cost him a good deal of money to have the Wentworth interest against him; in the latter it had cost Mrs. Wickersham a good deal of heart-burning. And Aaron Wickersham attributed it to the fact, of which rumors had come to him, that Ferdy was paying young Mrs. Wentworth more attention than her husband and his family liked, and they took this form of resenting it.
I sit by the hour trying to foist the blame upon Archie Wickersham, and he's no more guilty than Dexter. Dexter's merely good-natured about his crookedness; wholesome about it, somehow. And Wickersham's a sneak!" In all the years they had lived together Miss Sarah had never heard her brother talk so bitterly. Yet her voice remained soft.
"Now, having given you that information," continued Keith, "I say that you stole Mrs. Wentworth's money, and I have come to recover it, if possible." Wickersham rose to his feet. With a furious oath he sprang for his overcoat, and, snatching it up, began to feel for the pocket. "I'll blow your brains out." "No, you will not," said Keith, "and I advise you to make less noise.
I do not think you do know it. If you did, you would not " "Never mind. I want no more advice from you," snarled Wickersham. "I would like to have a letter saying that the work that has been done since you took charge has been under your express orders." "I'll see you condemned first.
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