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Updated: May 15, 2025
"There are too many people watching him, eager to find him overstepping the letter of the law. I can promise you, Mrs. Koons, that he or his friend, Bill Kyler, will not be long at either Gleasonton or Italee. But come, let us dispose of the lunch while the babies are taking care of themselves." She had arranged the repast as daintily as her surroundings would permit.
From the conversation of the two girls, Elizabeth caught such expressions as "that class of people," "counting each penny," "bound down by poverty," and similar phrases. The train had started on its way. A half-mile passed before it again slowed up. "This is Gleasonton," said the lady, arising and coming to Mrs. Koons to assist her with the children.
The letters from home came at their usual times, but neither her father nor mother mentioned the trouble at the mines. Elizabeth, believing that no news was good news, took it for granted that the difficulty had been amicably settled. A week later, in company with Mary Wilson, she set forth to visit Mrs. Gleason. From Exeter to Gleasonton is only an hour's ride.
You'd run away, Landis, or do something desperate. Isn't this where the Gleasons live?" "It used to be. But they live at Gleasonton now. They have a perfectly elegant place there. Of course, it is just their summer home. I'd like to take you down there sometime. I feel like taking the liberty for they are such old friends. They are in Washington during the winter.
"You see," the Judge said, "all the land at Italee and Gleasonton belong to Mrs. Gleason. She won't sell, and leases and rents only under certain conditions. All renters are her husband's workmen. I suppose there's seven or eight hundred in the tannery and brickyard. She won't permit a licensed hotel on her land.
Gleason from Gleasonton?" exclaimed Min. "Why, I thought she had no children." "She hasn't but she adopts them annually. During July and August we had a dozen babies at their home. We went for them in the morning and took them back at night, and I gave each one of them a bath every day." This last was said triumphantly. "I've heard she was rather eccentric!" said Landis.
I was expectin' that I'd be home in time for dinner, and I would if the train hadn't been late." "You can't get to Italee to-night, then," said her benefactress. "There's only one train a day from Gleasonton to Italee and it has gone by this time. They don't wait on the accommodation." "Can't I? Isn't there?" Mrs. Koons' countenance fell. "But I've got to get there!
Anna Cresswell has been invited down to Gleasonton to visit at the Senator's. Mrs. Gleason is arranging quite a party of Exeter girls as soon as they can have a free Saturday." "Elizabeth and I were invited to-day," said Mary. "We were to let Mrs. Gleason know what Saturday we would have free." "They have fine times there so they tell me," Azzie said. "I've never been invited to see for myself."
Difficulties like a walk of five miles with two children in her arms might hamper but not deter her. "Do not worry about that. I get off at Gleasonton, and I'll get someone to drive you over. The roads are fine now and it will not take long." "Yes'm. Oh, thank you! It will be kind of you, I'm sure, for walkin' with two babies in your arms ain't very pleasant. Do you live in Gleasonton, ma'am?"
There hain't no one I know in Gleasonton. If it wasn't for carrying the children, I'd walk. It hain't more than five miles, and mebbe I'd meet someone going up. The trucks come down pretty often. I've got to get there even if I have to walk." Back of her years of repression, her native independence showed. She had set out to reach Italee, and she meant to.
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