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"Jim," said Allott reproachfully, "you're talking like your father, and while airing one's views may be harmless, trying to live up to them doesn't always pay. Taking that line cost him much; I thought you wiser." Thirlwell colored. "My father was an honest man. If I can live as he did, I shall be satisfied."
"What have you to say to that?" Allott asked Thirlwell, with a twinkle. "It looks as if Evelyn knew my character I suppose I am obstinate. But I don't think she has stated the case correctly. It isn't that I don't want to come. Unfortunately, I can't." The other guests were leaving the tables and Mrs. Allott, getting up, gave her husband a meaning glance. "Then I must let Stephen talk to you.
"The hotel is not luxurious and they have very crude ideas about cookery, but they tried to suit my fastidious taste when I told them I was a friend of yours," Allott remarked. "However, I don't suppose you are remarkably comfortable at the mine, and you can change all this when you like."
While confined at home disabled he spent his time in carving and making things in wood; and then it occurred to him that, though he could not now be a ploughman, he might be a mechanic. When sufficiently recovered, he was accordingly put apprentice to one Allott, the village carpenter, under whom he soon became an expert workman.
She paused and touched Evelyn. "Do you hear what he says? Can't you persuade him to be sensible?" Evelyn turned and looked at Thirlwell with a careless smile. She was very composed, but Mrs. Allott thought she noted a trace of heightened color. "Oh, no; it would be useless for me to try. Nobody could persuade Jim to do what he does not want."
"I mean that and other things," said Allott dryly. "Perhaps I have spoken plainly enough; you are not a fool!" "Thanks! I don't claim much wisdom and I am sometimes rash. But perhaps we had better stick to Sir James's offer. Why does he make it now, after standing off when I needed help some years since?" "We'll take the offer first," Allott agreed.
"But I thought you were coming to New York with us," Mrs. Allott objected. Evelyn was talking animatedly to a young American, but looked round with languid carelessness. "Are you really not coming, Jim?" she asked. Then, without waiting for Thirlwell's answer, she resumed her talk, and Mrs. Allott wondered whether the girl had not overdone her part.
After a time Allott said, "Helen rather felt she was robbing you when she heard the will and she was excited when you told us about the mine. I hope the ore is as good as you thought." "The ore is good, but difficult to work. Then I'm only manager; I hold no shares." "If you wished, you could buy enough to give you some control." "Yes; I shall do so, now I'm able."
Barometer 28.75; thermometer 60 degrees at 5 p.m. 15th. Rested at Alexander Spring. Went for a walk to a flat-topped hill about South-South-East 50 chains from camp, which I have since named Mount Allott, and placed a cairn on it; another hill close by I named Mount Worsnop, after respectively the Mayor and Town Clerk of Adelaide.
Allott, having done her best to enlighten him, hoped he would now see where his advantage lay. "You are not very talkative, Jim," she said. Thirlwell looked up with an apologetic smile, but his eyes rested on the girl by Mrs. Allott's side. Evelyn Grant was young and attractive, but there was something tame about her beauty that harmonized with her character.
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