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The passengers all sought their berths as soon as possible, there to lie below the level of the windows and pile all the pillows they could get between themselves and the side of the car. When we reached Deming we found the place in an uproar. Every bell in town, from the gong of the railroad restaurant to the church bell, was ringing its loudest and wildest.
"Not a bit. I fancy they thought it a bit of a joke. More of one after we'd finished the game. I lost two thousand seven hundred dollars," he added with a laugh. "No chips under a dollar. Sky limit. And Deming had all the luck, and a majority of the skill, I fancy." "Don't seem to worry you none." "Well, it was sort of ghost money," laughed Rainey. "You've seen the color of it," retorted Lund.
He took the train for the old Southern town in Tennessee where she lived. Theodora Deming was on the steps of the handsome, porticoed old mansion, enjoying the summer twilight, when the Captain entered the gate and came up the gravelled walk. She met him with a smile that was free from embarrassment. As the Captain stood on the step below her, the difference in their ages did not appear so great.
Then his marriage with Juana Ramirez, the half-breed girl at Deming, and the bit of land he had bought with a mortgage to pay in the glaring, green river valley. Glimpses of their life there, children and work stupefying, tremendous work to keep them going and to meet the interest; he had been a giant in those days. And even so he hadn't been able to do it.
It was her business not to be affronted by familiar remarks and actions. She was there to draw trade. She knew how to drop quick curtsies in response to compliments and tips. Although Deming acted freely toward her like an old acquaintance, he could not make much headway owing to the bar of language her jargon of dialect.
"Come in here," said Rainey, and ushered Sandy into his own quarters. "Now, then," he said, established on the bunk, while Sandy stood by the partition, slouching, irresolute, his slack jaw working as if he was chewing something, "what is it, my lad?" "They'd kick the stuffin' out of me if they knew this," said Sandy. "I've bin warned to hold my tongue. Deming said he'd cut it out if I chattered.
It was possible, in the third place, to build directly west from Albuquerque through Arizona and Southern California to the coast. Ultimately all of these plans were carried out. The first extension of the Santa Fe was to Deming, New Mexico, where in March, 1881, its tracks met those of the Southern Pacific, and by agreement the company secured the use of the Southern Pacific to Benson, Arizona.
All the startling personalities, the worth while preachers, the new actors, somehow she knew all about them. "Now, Eugene," she would exclaim on seeing him, "you positively must go and see Haydon Boyd in 'The Signet," or "see Elmina Deming in her new dances," or "look at the pictures of Winslow Homer that are being shown at Knoedler's."
"It's because he looks as though he might do any of those things," suggested Mr. Deming. "Perhaps he may." "Oh," said Elsie Shorter, "the men who do them are usually little wobbly specimens." Honora was silent, watching Chiltern. At times the completeness of her understanding of him gave her an uncanny sensation; and again she failed to comprehend him at all.
The proper study of young man is young woman. I haven't been able to meet any young ladies in this country. Sometimes I think they have only wenches. And I want some of the classic Gayty and Schiller stuff too that you can get here in Loschwitz." This urgent idea did not appear auspicious to Gard. If Deming got the run of Villa Elsa, he would unsettle things, interfere with his own work.
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