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'Are the other meals here as good as breakfast? 'There's one up the street, says Ellabelle; 'a Presbyterian. 'I would prefer a Presbyterian, says Angus. 'Are those fried oysters I see up there? "That was about the way of it, I gathered later. Anyway, Angus brought her back, eating on the way a whole wicker suitcase full of lunch that she put up. And she seemed a good, capable girl, all right.
Angus said they'd have a mansion, the biggest in Wallace, only without slippery hardwood floors, because he felt brittle after his accident. Ellabelle says Wallace itself ain't big enough for the mansion that ought to be a home to his only son. She was learning how to get to Angus without seeming to.
We'll be wed when we get off the train. 'You're too impetuous, says Ellabelle, looking more than ever as if there was something about her. 'There, I was afraid I'd be, says Angus, quitting on some steak and breaking out into scarlet rash. 'What did you think I am? demands Ellabelle. 'Did you think I would answer your beck and call or your lightest nod as if I were your slave or something?
"'Saved your son eight hundred dollars, says Angus, 'or the equivalent of his own earnings for something like eight hundred years at current prices for labour. "'I've a right to know, says Ellabelle through her teeth and stiffening in her chair. Young Angus just set there with his mouth open.
It's a town where I believe they won't let you get off the train unless you got a visitor's card and a valet. "Here at last Ellabelle felt she might come into her own, for parties seemed to recognize her true worth at once. Some of them indeed she could buffalo right on the spot, for she hadn't lived in Europe and such places all them years for nothing.
"And so it went, with Ellabelle living in high hopes and young Angus busy inventing new ways to bump himself off, and old Angus getting more and more seething quiet enough outside, but so desperate inside that it wasn't any time at all till I saw he was just waiting for a good chance to make some horrible Scotch exhibition of himself.
I bet she had that feeling you get when you're riding your horse over soft ground and all at once he begins to bog down. "Anyway, they come West after a year or so, where Angus had more drag and Ellabelle could feel more important. Not back to Wallace, of course.
"'How could you do that when you didn't know the sex? demands Ellabelle with a frightened air of triumph. "'I did it, didn't I? says Angus. 'Then why ask how I could? And he curved the eyebrow up one side and down the other in a fighting way. "Ellabelle had been wedded wife of Angus long enough to know when the Scotch curse was on him. 'Very well, she says, though turning her face to the wall.
I gather that Angus let out a holler at first so that Ellabelle had to consult another specialist and have little Angus consult one, too. They both said: 'Certainly, don't delay another day if you value the child's life or your own, and of course Angus had to give in. I reckon that was the last real fight he ever put up till the time I'm going to tell you about.
I sort of lost track of the outfit, except as I'd see the name of Angus heading a new board of directors after the reorganization, or renting the north half of Scotland for the sage-hen and coyote shooting, or whatever the game is there. Of course it took genius to do this with Angus, and I've never denied that Ellabelle has it.
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