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We will have some company from Careyville who want to meet you." "I'm sorry, but I promised Leigh up here at church that I'd go over to Cloverdale for a little while tonight." Thaine could not tell Jo of Leigh's affairs, and he felt that the Shirleys' intimacy with his father's family and his own expressed admiration and attention to Jo were sufficient to protect him from jealousy.
He run me off my saloon in ol' Carey Crossin'; my prewery goin' smash mit der damned prohibittery law; he growin' rich in Careyville, an' me!" His voice rose to a shriek and he stamped his foot in rage. "Hold your noise, Wyker!" Champers growled. "Don't you know who's on the other side of that partition?" "I built that partition mineself. It's von dead noise-breaker," Wyker began.
When crops began to bring returns Jacobs established a new town farther west on the claim that Dr. Carey had taken up. Jacobs insisted on calling the place Careyville in honor of the doctor, because he had been the means of annihilating the first town named after Carey.
"I bought of Darley Champers for sixteen hundred dollars. I paid two hundred down just now. I've been saving it two years; since I left the high school at Careyville. Butter and eggs and chickens and some other things." She hesitated, and a dainty pink tint swept her cheek.
Champers took off his hat and fanned his red face as he sat on the ground and looked out at the winding river bordered by alfalfa fields. "Nice stand you got out there." He pointed with his hat toward the fields. "Where's Jim?" "He and Asher Aydelot have gone to Careyville to settle some of John Jacobs' affairs. They and Todd Stewart are named as trustees in the will," Leigh replied.
"He's here and away, but he never sets foot in Careyville. My guess is that he's a part of the 'Co. of 'Champers and Co. and that Hans Wyker is the rest of it.
He dropped her hand and turned away, and when their eyes met again, the light was gone. It was still Indian-Summer weather on the prairie when Doctor Carey with little Leigh Shirley reached Careyville. He had a feeling that Jim would prefer meeting Leigh in his own home, so no word had been sent forward as to the time of the coming of the two.
"I came over to Little Wolf with Rosie Gimpke and some other colts. Then I walked over here to catch a ride to Careyville, if I could," Thaine said carelessly. "You can ride with me if you want to. I'll be going soon after dinner," Leigh suggested. "Oh, I'll want to all right. It may be well to start early.
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.
"Then Jacobs got him at last. Fine friend to you fellers, that man Jacobs. Easy to see what he wants. He ain't boomin' no place but Careyville," Champers snarled. "But the deep bend ain't the only bend in Grass River. Or do you want to shove prosperity away when it comes right to your door?" Nobody wants to do that.
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