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"I'd like to," said Skipper Ed. "Yes, I'd like to; but you see I've got a partner, and one partner can't go ahead and do things unless the other partner agrees. At any rate he shouldn't. Do you agree, Partner?" The boys gave a whoop of joy. "Then you consent, Partner?" and Skipper Ed's eyes twinkled humorously. "Of course I do, Partner!" exclaimed Jimmy. "It's what I've wanted to do right along."
But Ed always does the wrong thing, you know." "Then I presume this confiscation is in the nature of a reprisal. But the stock is mine, not Ed's. I'm an American citizen, and " "My dear, you're the first one I've heard boast of the fact," cynically affirmed the Judge. "If you were in Mexico you'd profit more by claiming allegiance to the German or the English or some other foreign flag.
"I'm off for something to eat," said Callahan, "and by the way, what shall I tell Bucks about the chances?" "Can you get Ed Smith's outfit?" asked Glover, speaking to Blood. "Well, I know you can Ed's a Denver man." He meditated another moment; "We need his whole outfit, mind you." "I'll get it or resign. If I succeed, when can you get a train through?" "By midnight." Callahan staggered.
Ed's mouth opened; his reddened eyes protruded. "Well " he stammered. "Well, by God!" Then after a moment: "Who is it, the Greaser or the cowboy?" He laughed loudly, disagreeably. "It must be one or the other, for you haven't seen any men except them. Another man! Well, you're cool about it." "I am glad you know the truth."
I told Doctor Crimmins myself last night an' I guess he's been up to The Cedars by this time. I guess Ed's death wouldn't affect her much, though." "Why is that?" "Well, the brothers-in-law never got on very well together in the old days, an' far as I know Miss Eve never saw Ed except, perhaps, when they were both babies.
I've watched it in Ed's case, for instance. If you know the parents it's easy to read their children." Again he lapsed into silence, nodding to himself. "Yes, Nature mixes her prescriptions like any druggist. I'm glad you and Ed have no babies." Alaire murmured something unintelligible. "And yet," the lawyer continued, "many people are cursed with an inheritance as bad, or worse, than Ed's."
The course required two years and was rather expensive. But Marcia said it would pay, in the end. Besides, now that the war had knocked Ed's business into a cocked hat for the next five years or more, the extra money would come in very handy for the children and herself and the household. Hannah thought the whole plan nonsense. "I can't see that you're pinched, exactly.
And the price of a ticket to the Holy Land and back that trip which had not yet materialised might have been many times written down, had Lawyer Ed known anything about book-keeping. But Lawyer Ed's policy in all his career, had been something the same as that of his friend Doctor Blair across the way to keep his people of his practice well, rather than to cure them when they were ill.
After lunch Ed's own car got in from Colfax and he had the party over there for cigars and more talk about himself, which was skillfully led by Ben. Then the president invited Ed to hitch his car on and come along with them for a little trip, and talk over mining and investments, and so on, and what the outlook was in the Southwest. So Ed went with 'em and continued to hear talk of his accident.
All day Sam kept himself doggedly at work, though as soon as Ed disappeared he had to fight the impulse to drop everything and fly farther. It did not matter where he went, so he kept moving. It seemed to him that only in movement was any escape to be had from the weight pressing on his brain. He wanted to be alone. In his disorganized state of nerves even Ed's friendliness was a kind of torture.
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