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"Me? Hardly," young Gower smiled. "It did not cost me anything to operate Folly Bay at a loss while I was in charge. I had neither money nor reputation to lose. You may have worried the governor. I dare say you did. He never did take kindly to anything or any one that interfered with his projects. But I haven't heard him commit himself.
When I reached home my first question was: "Have you heard from Mary lately, Belle?" "Not for a week, and I'm quite worried about her. Before that, she wrote to me dutifully every two or three days, telling me all about her work.
The thing that had so worried her was that Colonel Sumner was taking Major Sedgwick with him for conference and a single squadron of fifty men under Stuart's command. The little bride had found out that he was the sole leader of the fifty fighting men and her quick wit had sensed the danger of the possible extermination of such a force in a battle with desperadoes.
Carl was gradually building up to something of this kind, has been for a long time. His coming over to the ranch nights, looking for that letter that he had hunted all over for at first, shows he wasn't right in his mind on the subject. But " "Well, heavens and earth, Lite!" Jean's tone was exasperated more than it was worried. "Why don't you say what you want to say? What's it all about?
Dear Dairy, you will have to be burned, I darsay. Perhaps it is as well. I have p o r e d out my H-e-a-r-t "MONEY is the root of all Evil." I do not know who said the above famous words, but they are true. I know it but to well. For had I never gone on an Allowence, and been in debt and always worried about the way silk stockings wear out, et cetera, I would be having a much better time.
In the midst of closing this splendid deal, which stimulated business and public confidence by giving an example of increased real-estate activity, Babbitt was overwhelmed to find that he had a dishonest person working for him. The dishonest one was Stanley Graff, the outside salesman. For some time Babbitt had been worried about Graff. He did not keep his word to tenants.
"Now, there are two of her sisters calling for the lost one," said the rabbit. "They must be very much worried about Phoebe. Perhaps a bear has eaten her. That would be dreadful! I must help them!" So he hopped on through the woods, faster than ever, crying out: "I'm coming! I'm coming! Old Uncle Wiggily is going to help you find Phoebe."
In her plain morning frock, with the sun bringing out those wonderful russet tints in her hair, but having that frightened look still in her eyes, she had never seemed more beautiful. Yet I saw as I rose to greet her that she was laboring under the influence of dangerous nervous excitement. "You are worried about Eric?"
Moccasins were plentiful, but the boys were too tired to be worried by them. They had to make two more trips to carry their cargo, and on the last one, as Dick was staggering under a load of smoked meat and a heavy, salted skin, he was heard to say: "I wonder why I killed that bear. I will never kill another one."
"I did go over it," he answered. "But it would be rather absurd for just Mary and me." She looked up Phillips at the House, and gave him Greyson's message. He had just returned from Folkestone, and was worried. "She was so much better last week," he explained. "But it never lasts." "Poor old girl!" he added. "I believe she'd have been happier if I'd always remained plain Bob Phillips."
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