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Updated: July 1, 2025
Servants are sometimes embarrassed, you know, about telling the truth before any of the family." "You didn't get much truth out of Solomon," I retorted. "I don't know that I did," Terry admitted with a laugh. "There are the elements of a good reporter in Solomon; he has an imagination which I respect. The Gaylords appear to be an interesting family with hereditary tempers.
Speaker Doby a most convenient and congenial arrangement; farther down the board were State Senator Nat Billings, Mr. Mr. Tooting's description would not have stopped here. Sensations are common in the Pelican Hotel, but when Austen Vane walked in that evening between the Gaylords, father and son, many a hungry guest laid down his knife and fork and stared.
She had fled to Claire, that cousin on her father's side, who some years before, to the wonder and chagrin of many Gaylords east and west, to all except the Viking physician, who had rejoiced in her spirit, had eloped with a cowboy, since turned successful cattleman, whom she had met at the Denver Carnival.
At all events the Pennocks and the Gaylords have struck up a furious friendship, and the young people of both families are in the forefront of innumerable social affairs in most of which Mellicent is left out. So now you have it the whole story. And next month comes to Mellicent's father one hundred thousand dollars. Do you wonder I say the plot thickens? As for myself you should see me!
"I'm not ready to walk the ties when I go to Newcastle," he remarked, "and Nat ain't quite bankrupt yet. The Gaylords," continued Mr. Pardriff, who always took the cynical view of a man of the world, "have had some row with the Northeastern over lumber shipments. I understand they're goin' to buck 'em for a franchise in the next Legislature, just to make it lively.
He was rather coy at first about discussing the matter of the ha'nt, as he scented my scepticism, but in the end he volunteered: "Some says de ha'nt's a woman dat one o' de Gaylords long time ago, should o' married an' didn't, an' dat pined away an' died. An' some says it's a black man one o' dem whupped to deaf." "Which do you think it is?" I inquired.
He'll get a bigger salary, and all that, and and I guess I'm glad to go, anyway I don't like Hillerton any more. I haven't got any friends here, Maggie. Of course, I wouldn't have anything to do with the Gaylords now, after what's happened, that boy getting my boy to drink and gamble, and and everything.
"I do not wish to be understood to ask your legal opinion, although you probably know that lumber rates have been steadily raised, and if a suit under that section were successful the Gaylord Lumber Company could recover a very large sum of money from the Northeastern Railroads," said Austen. "Having discovered the section, I believe it to be my duty to call it to the attention of the Gaylords.
That's why I was so glad when this money came for Jim. And now, don't you see? he's thrown his whole lost youth into Fred. And Fred " "Fred is going to make good. You see if he doesn't!" "I hope he will. But I wish those Gaylords had been at the bottom of the Red Sea before they ever came to Hillerton," she fumed with sudden vehemence as she entered her own gate.
The Gaylords ain't exactly poverty-stricken, but they might as well try to move Sawanec Mountain as the Northeastern." It was a fact that young Tom Gaylord had approached Austen Vane with a "delegation" to request him to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the State senate in his district against the railroad candidate and Austen's late opponent, the Honourable Nat Billings.
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