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He forced a smile to his lips, and turning to Scott asked when the Bowmans expected to start on their trip. "Monday," was the reply. "It's too bad Rex can't come with us. I was counting on him. We'd have no end of fun." "Oh, Syd," suddenly broke in Rex, "did you know that old Mr. Tyler was dead? Or did he die before you came home last night?"
Rex stopped stock still in the road to utter the exclamation. "That old bag of bones worth half a million dollars! Nonsense." "I think it's more likely he should be worth that amount," returned Roy, "than the Bowmans, for instance, who seem to spend their income right up to the handle. You know everybody has always thought Mr. Tyler had money." "I know they have, but such a sum as that!"
He was up and starting to bring her; I stopped him. "We'll not bother with those names just now. I'd rather have you or Mrs. Vandeman tell me what you suppose would be the entry in Thomas Gilbert's diary for May 31 and June 1, 1916. I have already identified it as the date on which the Bowmans first moved into the Wallace house. I think Mr.
She neither knew the new gods and goddesses, nor did she know how to invent stories about their doings. Becker, who had seen Milly, not merely at the Bowmans, but at many of the more brilliant functions of the Fair season, regarded her as "up-to-date," and further, thought her a nice, lively young woman, who would know the difference between Mrs.
Having exhausted himself in regretting the good time he would lose in not being able to go with the Bowmans, he had taken to lamenting his condition here in Marley during vacation with Scott away. He was not so fond of reading as was Roy, and without plenty of congenial society, he was apt to find that time hung heavy on his hands.
Julia Cloud had done the work well, however she had done it. The little Bowmans need not look to her to fill their mother's place, for she was not so minded. Meantime, the winter had been going on, and the little pink-and-white house was becoming popular among the students at college as well as among the members of the Christian Endeavor Society of the little brick church.
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