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The mortgage for the loan was given to Horace Carey, as agreed upon between himself and Miss Jane Aydelot. "If Leigh knows it's Aydelot money she might feel like she's taking what should be Thaine's. Would the Aydelots feel the same if they knew it?" Miss Jane had asked. "The thing the Aydelots have never grieved for is this Ohio inheritance," Carey answered her.
With the military schooling and unschooling where discipline tends to make a soldier, and absence of home influence tends to make the careless rowdy, the sterling uprightness of the Aydelots and the inborn gentility of the Thaines kept the boy from the Kansas prairies a fearless gentleman. Withal, he was exuberantly pleased with life, as a young man of twenty-one should be.
It was the supreme moment for Thaine Aydelot. He was only a private, but in that instant all the old dominant Cavalier blood of the Thaines, all the old fearless independence of the Huguenot Aydelots, all the calm poise and courage of the Quaker Penningtons throbbed again in his every pulse-beat. He threw aside his soldier obligation and stood up a man, guided alone by the light within him.
He buried your first-born, and now he comes to give you a daughter, He's been first aid to the Aydelots all along the line, as he will hope to continue to be, world without end, and a little more." The homestead on the Purple Notches looks out on a level land stretching away in an unbroken line to the far westward horizon.
I'm something of a danged fool, but I knowed this boom was comin'. I felt it in my craw." "So you always said, Champers," Thomas Smith broke in, "but it's been a century coming. And look at the capital I've sunk. If you'd worked that deal through, time of the drouth in seventy-four, we'd be in clover and no Careyville and no Aydelots in the way.
"More Ananias magnificence! Do you suppose the Aydelots will be down before we go away?" the doctor asked. "We?" "Yes, I am going to take you with me, or give you a quieting powder when I leave here. On your own declaration you'd do anything to get back to strength and work. Now, the only way to get well, with or without a physician, is to get well.
And then the two sat in silence while the night shadows darkened the little cabin. As soon as Shirley was able to ride, he went up to Carey's Crossing for a two months' stay, and the Aydelots were left far away from the edge of civilization. A heavy snowfall buried all the trails and the world, the happy, busy world, forgot these two holding their claim on the grim wilderness frontier.
While night and day, in the battle clamor, in the little college class room, on boundless prairie billows, among lonely sand dunes everywhere, he carried the memory of the gentle touch of the hand of a rebel girl, who had visited him when he was sick and in prison. And withal, he resented dictation, as all the Aydelots and Penningtons before him had done.
"And having handled Aydelots all my life, I'm letting him alone a little with the hope that at last he'll come back to the soil as I did. He goes to the Kansas University this fall and he has all sorts of notions, even a craving for military glory. I can't blame him. I had the same disease once. I don't believe in any wild oats business.
"And I haven't told you because her name is Virginia Thaine, and she is a descendant of Jerome Thaine. Are the Aydelots big enough to bury old hates?" Francis Aydelot sat moveless as a statue. When at length he spoke, there was no misunderstanding his meaning. "You have no means by which to earn a living.
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