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Wait till you get him on the cowcatcher of your Manton, anti then break it to him gently. "'And, Mr. Collenquest, I said, 'if you should really think it awfully low and horrid of me to do this I won't do it. "'My dear little girl, he returned, 'get that out of your head right here.
I hope your car will prove everything you want it to be, and the same with your Englishman, and I'm only too grateful that it wasn't a steam yacht you had set your heart on, or a palace on the Hudson. "There isn't much more to be said about this part of the afair. Papa paid me four-fifty for Gee-whizz, and I handed the check to Mr. Collenquest, and Mr.
"'I am giving you a bit of inside information that's worth millions of dollars, said Mr. Collenquest in that solemn tone that always gave me the better-girl feeling. "'My dear old chap, said papa, 'I don't want you to believe I am not grateful for this sort of proof of your friendship; and you mustn't think, because I have strong convictions, that I arrogate any superior, virtue to myself.
Collenquest is an old friend of papa's," she continued. "They were at the same college, and both belonged to what they call 'the wonderful old class of seventy-nine, and there's nothing in the world papa wouldn't do for Mr. Collenquest or Mr. Collenquest for papa.
Collenquest, 'but I never knew a man yet who couldn't do with forty or fifty thousand more. "'I don't care to get it that way, Bill, said my father. "'I tell you Great Western is going to reach six hundred and fifty, said Mr. Collenquest. "I picked daisies fast, but if there ever was a girl all ears, it was I.
"He smothered an awful bad swear and turned as pale as a white Panhard. "'Little girl, he said, 'you've been listening to things you had no right to hear. "'I didn't mean to listen, I said. 'Really and truly, Mr. Collenquest, I didn't "'You were forty feet away picking wildflowers, he said. "'You didn't realize how badly I wanted a Manton, I said. "'A Manton! he cried out.
Collenquest, whom I found in a hammock, reading a basketful of telegrams. 'The fact is, I just wanted to have a little business talk with you. "'Oh, a business talk, he said, in a be-nice-to-the-child tone. "'Yes, I said, 'I thought I might perhaps take a little flyer in Great Westerns. "You ought to have seen him leap out of that hammock. I quaked all over, like Honest Labor in the pictures.
Papa is rather a quiet man ordinarily, but that week it seemed as though he'd never stop laughing; and I'd wake up at one o'clock in the morning and hear them still at it. Of course, they had long serious talks, too, and Mr. Collenquest was never so like a bishop as when the conversation turned on stocks and Wall Street.
"'If it's just being a little short of ready money, said Mr. Collenquest, 'well my purse is yours, you know from one figure to six. "My father only shook his head. "'I said fifty thousand, said Mr. Collenquest, 'but there is nothing to prevent your adding another naught to it. "'It's speculating, said my father. "'Well, I'm sorry, said Mr Collenquest.
Collenquest with a check for three thousand five hundred dollars, saying I must have forgotten about buying Gee-whizz back again, and that he had taken the liberty of exceeding my instructions about selling till my shares had touched that figure.
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