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How much of sacrifice lay in that act of hers, only Horace Carey could understand. "I promise gladly, Miss Aydelot. I see why you are willing to give up little Leigh now," he said, looking up with eyes filled with sincerest admiration. "You are a wonderful woman. You have the same Aydelot heritage of endurance and patience and the large view of duty that characterizes your cousin Asher.
A gray cloud-wave, creeping tide-like up from the southwest, was tempering the afternoon glare. In all the landscape the only object to hold the eye was a prairie schooner drawn by a team of hard-mouthed little Indian ponies, and followed by a free-limbed black mare of the Kentucky blue blood. Asher Aydelot sat on the wagon seat holding the reins.
But Rosie was dull and slept heavily and these things came to her sluggish brain only in fleeting dreams. Thaine and Leigh did not hurry on their homeward way. And Jo Bennington, wide awake in the guest room of the Aydelot house, noted that the moon was far toward the west when Thaine let himself in at the side door and slipped up stairs unheard by all the household except herself.
But the woman's instinct in Virginia responded little to the dog's uneasiness, and she replied courteously: "Yes, Mr. Shirley is there, very sick." "Um, who have I the honor of addressing now?" Champers asked awkwardly, as if to change the subject. "Mrs. Asher Aydelot." "Well, now, I've heard of Aydelot. Where is your man today? I'd like to meet him, Mrs.
Smith and I control some funds together, and he's willing to take Shirley's place and I'll give you a reasonable figger, not quite so good as I could 'a done previous to this calamity but I'll take the Aydelot place off your hands." Champers smiled triumphantly. "The Aydelot place is not for sale. Good afternoon." And Virginia left the office without more words.
Aydelot says you are as graceful and well-bred as all your grandmothers have been since the time a Juno long ago followed a prairie schooner down the old Grass River Trail to a little sod shack on a treeless claim in the wilderness. This is too fine a morning to go indoors," she added as she came back to the front lawn to the seat under the fragrant white honeysuckle.
"The real thing is left to you," she replied, "the biggest work of all. You must go out and tame the soil. Your father bought his first quarter with money his father had left him by will, but he had no inheritance to buy all the other quarters that make the big Aydelot wheat fields of the Sunflower Ranch.
I'm homesick." "Yes?" "And this Mrs. Aydelot was a Virginia woman." "Yes?" "Well, I'm a true son of Virginia, and I thought it might make me happy to hear about somebody from " "You are a magnificent liar," Jim broke in. "Evidently it's better to have you talk about your neighbors than your medical advisor tonight," Carey retorted. "Oh, I won't say a word more," Jim declared.
In a few minutes she returned and gave a large sealed envelope into Doctor Carey's hands. "Do not use that until it is needed to protect someone from Tank Shirley's violence. It is legally drawn and witnessed. You will find it effective if it is needed at all." "I have one more duty, Miss Aydelot," Doctor Carey said. "My time is brief. I have an intuition, too, that I may never come East again."
You'll do that to a fault. But don't make any mistake about Mrs. Asher Aydelot. She went through Rebel and Union lines once to save your life. Don't doubt her strength to hold her own here as soon as the first fight is over. She is like that Kentucky thoroughbred of hers; she's got endurance as well as grace and beauty." "Bless you, Jim," Asher said, as he clasped Shirley's hand.
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