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She ain't as big as some, but I'd like nothin' better than to fill her full of suthin' for the west coast of Africy, same as the Horace M. Bickford that cleared t'other day, stocked for SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS." "Huh, you'd get lost out o' sight of land, John," is the cruel retort, "and that old shoe-box of yours 'ud be scared to death without a harbor to run into every time the sun clouded over.
Why, I wan't never aware you had met with a disappointment, Abby," said Mrs. Bickford instantly. None of her neighbors had ever suspected little Miss Pendexter of a romance. "Yes 'm, he's livin'," replied Miss Pendexter humbly. "No 'm, I never have heard that he died." "I want to know!" exclaimed the woman of experience.
I don't like his hints," said Mr. Bickford. He prepared to mount the animal, but the latter rose on its hind legs and very clearly intimated that the proposal was not agreeable. "What's got into the critter?" said Joshua. "He wants to rest. Suppose we rest here for half-an-hour, while we loosen check-rein and let the horses graze." "Just as you say."
"Do it, Mr. Bickford. That will leave you enough to use at home." "Yes I can buy a farm for two thousand dollars and stock it for five hundred more. Besides, I needn't pay more than half down, if I don't want to." "A good plan," said Joe. "Mr. Morgan, will you take my money and invest it for me just like Joe's? Of course I want you to take a commission for doing it." "With pleasure, Mr.
Bickford, and I respected 'em all. I don't know but what I think of one on 'em 'most as much as I do of the other." "Why, 'tis difficult for you, ain't it?" responded Miss Pendexter. "I don't know's I can offer advice." "No, I s'pose not," answered her friend slowly, with a shadow of disappointment coming over her calm face. "I feel sure you would if you could, Abby."
This will leave me, including my profits from the business during my absence, nearly three thousand dollars more, which I shall take East and invest there." "I will follow your instructions, Joe, and predict that your real estate investments will make you rich sooner than you think." "Joe," said Bickford, "I've a great mind to leave half of my money with Mr. Morgan to be invested in the same way."
You know I have to avoid bein' out in the mornin' sun?" Miss Pendexter smiled to herself at this moment; she was obliged to move from her chair at the window, the May sun was so hot on her back, for Mrs. Bickford always kept the curtains rolled high up, out of the way, for fear of fading and dust. The kitchen was a blaze of light. As for the Sunday chaise being sent, it was well known that Mrs.
"I shall start for San Francisco to-morrow, having other business there that I need to look after." "I'll go too, Joe," said Joshua. "With my share of the purchase-money and the nugget, I'm worth, nigh on to five thousand dollars. What will dad say?" "And what will Susan Smith say?" queried Joe. Joshua grinned. "I guess she'll say she's ready to change her name to Bickford," said he.
Bickford nodded assent, and then, startled by sudden recollection, she cast a quick glance at the rose in the window. "I always seem to forget about your first husband, Mr. Fraley," Miss Pendexter suggested bravely. "I've often heard you speak of him, too, but he'd passed away long before I ever knew you." "He was but a boy," said Mrs. Bickford.
Lashed in this manner, the Honorable J. Percival Bickford began retort of a nature that reminded his fellow-townsmen that he was "Jabe" Bickford, of Smyrna, before he was donor of public benefits and libraries. The grimness of Cap'n Sproul's face relaxed a little. He forgot even the incubus of the plug hat. He nudged Hiram. "I didn't know he had it in him," he whispered.
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