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It bore the good American name of Clark T. N. Clark and it seemed to me that I could tell something of the Clarks by the box at the crossing. "I think they need a friendly word," I said to myself. So I wrote the name T. N. Clark on my envelope and put the letter in his box. It was with a sense of joyous adventure that I now turned aside into the sandy road and climbed the hill.
The Clarks said that they had heard so. "I been to western Pennsylvania." His hearers expressed a lukewarm interest. "I went to hunt up the records of Fayette County concerning the grandparents of Mary here." "I hope you were successful," remarked the elder Miss Clark politely.
Its glass showed not the slightest drawbacks from its great size. It had been feared that, after a certain limit, the slight bending of the glass under its own weight would be injurious to its performance. Nothing of the kind being seen, the Clarks were quite ready to undertake much larger instruments.
"It is simply preposterous, the whole thing," one of the younger officers observed, rising to go about more important business. "It's not likely to come to anything they are poor people, these other Clarks, you said?" inquired Mr. Smith. "I know only one of them," Adelle replied. "He was a stone mason working on my place in California. It was by accident that I learned of his relationship to me.
Its large, level surface, so persistently offered to unwilling purchasers of real estate, seized hold of my boyish imagination. I invented mysterious reasons for its condition, which as time went on must have been influenced by what I heard at the family table of the Clarks and their possessions. Now it is all inextricably woven in my memory into a web of fact and fancy.
The Clarks, who had never been considerable or numerous, had in the course of three generations gradually lost their hold upon the complex threads of life, shiftlessly shedding relationships as the Veteran had done, or proudly refusing inferior connections as Addie had, until the family was left solitary in the person of this one fifteen-year-old girl, in whom the social habit seemed utterly atrophied.
The Doyles and the Dores lived in one house next to the Clarks, Molly and Tim on the first floor, Dicky and Delia above. Maida became very fond of the Doyle children. Like Betsy, they were too young to go to school and she saw a good deal of them in the lonely school hours. The puddle was an endless source of amusement to them.
An interest womanwise in this young stone mason, who was the only one of the California Clarks she had yet seen?... The judge leaned forward and took Adelle's hand. "Tell me, my dear," he said, "just why you want them to have your money. For of course it would be your money that they would get in the end, if by any possibility they could win their case."
Thinking of Hugh's teething all the way, she did not reflect that this store, these drab blocks, made up all her background. She did her work, and she triumphed over winning from the Clarks at five hundred. The most considerable event of the two years after the birth of Hugh occurred when Vida Sherwin resigned from the high school and was married.
She had not thought about the Clarks or Clark's Field for some years.... To-day she began wondering whether by chance this young mason of the name of Clark could be related to any of her mother's people. She must find out more about his family history. So she prolonged her walk among the hills until the declining sun told her that the mason would have returned to his home.
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