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"I know you found a map an' some sort of a paper what explained about that old pirate treasure. It was in a sailorman's chest in Tyke Grimshaw's office. Like enough Tyke stole it from the poor feller. An' I heard you tellin' Miss Ruth about it that night at dinner," he added, with a leering glance at the pale-faced girl.
Indeed, she had priced stuff several times at Mrs. Peabody's request and nothing had ever come of it. But she agreed to go to Grimshaw's if she got that far in her walk, and Mrs. Peabody turned aside into her own room without asking any questions. "Gee! thought you never were coming," complained Bob, when the slim figure in the navy serge skirt and white middy met him at the end of the lane road.
An old uncle over in Vermont died three weeks ago and left us thirty-eight hundred dollars. It was old Uncle Ezra Baynes o' Hinesburg. Died without a chick or child. Your aunt and me slipped down to Potsdam an' took the stage an' went over an' got the money. It was more money than I ever see before in my life. We put it in the bank in Potsdam to keep it out o' Grimshaw's hands.
Barnes had bought two hundred acres at ten dollars an acre. He had to pay a fee of five per cent. to Grimshaw's lawyer for the survey and the papers. This left him owing fourteen hundred dollars on his farm much more than it was worth. One hundred acres of the land had been roughly cleared by Grimshaw and a former tenant. The latter had toiled and struggled and paid tribute and given up.
Grimshaw's complaint and these words of my beloved uncle uncovered my emotions so that I put my elbow on the wood-box and leaned my head upon it and sobbed. "I tell ye I'd rather have that boy than all the money you've got, Mr. Grimshaw," Uncle Peabody added. My aunt came and patted my shoulder and said: "Sh sh sh! Don't you care, Bart! You're just the same as if you was our own boy ayes! you be."
I thought it all over one day an' went up to Grimshaw's an' took him by the back of the neck and shook him. He said he would drive me out o' the country. He gave me six months to pay up. I had to pay or lose the land. I got the money on the note that you signed over in Potsdam. Nobody in Canton would 'a' dared to lend it to me." The poker broke and he threw the pieces under the stove.
I fear the greater part of them are going to hell with their eyes open." But if they were so bound, it was not for want of exertion on Mr. Grimshaw's part to prevent them. He used to preach twenty or thirty times a week in private houses. If he perceived any one inattentive to his prayers, he would stop and rebuke the offender, and not go on till he saw every one on their knees.
"But that night of Cora Grimshaw's party he danced with me six times. He was in the bank then, and had forgotten all 'us kids, I suppose. Funny how suddenly a boy grows up when he gets out of school and into business. But me "Well! I should have known him if we hadn't met for twenty years. Perhaps that's because he is the first boy I ever danced with in town, I mean.
The passengers climbed to their places, thinking hard. A mile or so along the road the man with the cork hat remarked, with much truth 'Those blanky Bushmen have got too much time to think. The Bushmen returned to the shanty as soon as the coach was out of sight, and proceeded to 'knock down' the fiver. Jimmy Grimshaw's Wooing.
The conditions are all fulfilled; he will have the property, and you are independent. And now he has no further claim upon me, and no power over me!" "He has, Jacquelina; and it is only Dr. Grimshaw's forbearance that permits you to indulge in this wicked whim." "His forbearance! Oh! hasn't he been forbearing, though!" she exclaimed, with a mocking laugh.
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