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He talks well, yes, an' he's always pleasant, always; but he's jest not in it Men air foolish anyway." She was beginning to acknowledge that all her efforts to gain her end might prove unsuccessful. Barkman, with his varied experience and the cooler blood of forty, saw more of the game than either Bancroft or Loo.
I've no pride at all when I think of him, except I know that no one else could make him as happy as I could. Oh my!" and she sighed with a sense of the mysterious unnecessary suffering in life. "An' he goes on bein' mad with Lawyer Bark-man. Fancy, that fat old man. He warn't jealous of Seth Stevens or the officer, no; but of him. Why, it's silly. Barkman don't count anyway.
In this mood they reached the homestead. Loo alighted at the gate; she wouldn't allow Barkman even to get down; he was to go right off at once, but when he returned she'd meet him. With a grave respectful bow he lifted his hat, and drove away. On the whole, he had reason to be proud of his diplomacy; reason, too, for saying to himself that at last he had got on "the inside track."
When the coast was clear of soldiers some of the older settlers went up to Conklin's to take counsel together. It was agreed to collect from all the farmers interested two dollars a head for law expenses, and to send at once for Lawyer Barkman of Wichita, in order to have his opinion on the case. Morris offered to bring Barkman next day about noon to Conklin's, and this proposal was accepted.
Of course I'd like to help you, and I'd like to live in New York; but I can't make up my mind all at once. You must wait. If you really care for me, that can't be hard." "Yes, it's hard," Barkman replied, "very hard to feel uncertain of winning the only woman I can ever love. But I don't want to press you," he added, after a pause, "I rely on you; you know best, and I'll do just what you wish."
"What do you mean?" "You didn't hear buggy-wheels last night along towards two o'clock?" "No, but you don't mean to say? Lawyer Barkman!" And Bancroft started up with horror in his look. The Elder stared at him, with rigid face and wild eyes, but as he gradually took in the sincerity of the young man's excitement, he turned, and left the room.
Of course I'd like to help you, and I'd like to live in New York; but I can't make up my mind all at once. You must wait. If you really care for me, that can't be hard." "Yes, it's hard," Barkman replied, "very hard to feel uncertain of winning the only woman I can ever love. But I don't want to press you," he added, after a pause, "I rely on you; you know best, and I'll do just what you wish."
And she cried again a little, but these tears relieved her, did her good. She tried to look at the whole position steadily. Barkman would take her away to New York. Marry him? she didn't want to, but she wouldn't make up her mind now; she'd go away with him if he'd be a real friend to her. Only he mustn't put his arm round her again; she didn't like him to do that.
The girl looked up at him, only half understanding his rhapsody, but glowing with the hope called to life by his extravagant praise of her. "Why, George," she said shyly, because wholly won, "I don't think no more of Lawyer Barkman than the moon thinks of the fence an' I guess that's not much," she added, with a little laugh of complete content.
Was it Bancroft's jealousy that made him smile contemptuously as he, too, glanced at her? If so, the disdain was ill-timed. Flushing slightly, she answered, "I guess I'll be pleased to do what I can," and she met the schoolmaster's eyes defiantly as she spoke. With the advent of Barkman upon the scene a succession of new experiences began for Bancroft.
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