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"I hope for your sake, he will prove a good man. What is his business?" "I don't know, nor did my father. All I know is, that he is considered a prosperous man. This letter is from him." It was inclosed in a brown envelope, and ran as follows: "HARRY VANE: I have received your letter saying that your father wants me to be your guardeen.
"What is it, then?" "Herbert." "What makes him call you Sam, then?" asked Abner, with a jerk of the finger toward the house. "I don't know, except he is afraid I will be found." Abner looked puzzled. "Is he your guardeen?" he asked. "No; he was my father's clerk." "Ho! Did your father have clerks?" "Yes; he is a rich man and does business in New York." "What made him send you out here?"
"He's dead game, and he's a dead shot, two important things for a man that's playing to win when in certain localities, and he's dead certain that he's the God-appointed guardeen of the Black Pearl." "What's she got to say about it?" growled Hanson. The bar-keeper shrugged his shoulders. "Ask me what the desert out there's thinking, and I'll tell you what's going on inside the Pearl's head.
Alford leaned against a fence and threshed his hands to keep them warm, while he told Mark that "he had been with Mildred privately out to the Probate Court, that the case had been stated to the jedge, who allowed, that, as she was above fourteen, she had a right to choose her own guardeen, that he, Alford, was to be put in, in place of the Squire, and that then, in his opinion, there would be an overhaulin' so's to hev things set to rights."
"You start anything like that taking that young one away from her lawful guardeen an' I'll get Elnathan Spear after you in a hurry, now I tell ye. I'll give you your nevergitovers!" "If Nate Spear comes to my house, I'll ask him to pay me for that corn he bought off'n me as long ago as last fall," chuckled the farmer.
"But I insist that the money is yours, daddy. My fairy godmother paid it to you for keeping, clothing, and educating me. It is not mine." "You talk like I was a boardin' school instead o' bein' your guardeen. No, siree; it's your money, an' that ends it. You git it when you're twenty-one." "We'll see, daddy," she replied, a stubborn light in her dark eyes.
The reverend drawed a last will an' testiment fer me, leavin' this hyar land ter her she haint blood kin of mine, yo' know, nor adopted by law-an' I reckons hit will be val'able some day, fer a city stranger told me oncet thet thar's coal on hit. So my leetle gal haint ergoin' ter start her new life penniless, an' ... an' now I wants ter name ye ter be her guardeen till she air growed up.
You've had a little too much, that's what's the matter with you. Why, you need a guardeen." Taking Rouletta by the shoulders, the speaker turned her about so that the dim half-light that filtered through the canvas wall of the tent saloon shone full upon her face.
I hadn't no idee that there wuz a rebel in the whole County. If anything had happened you it'd just killed mother and the girls, and then I'd never rested till I got shot myself, for I wouldn't wanted to live a minute." "Pshaw, my son," responded his father rather testily; "you ain't my guardeen, and I hope it'll be a good many years yit before you are. I'm mighty glad that I went.
"I would thank you for taking me," answered the boy. "That is well!" said the professor, in a tone of satisfaction. "I confess I shouldn't like to go alone. It would be a great undertaking, but with a companion it would seem different. But, is there anyone who would object to your going?" "Yes," answered Harry, smiling, "Mr. Fox, my 'guardeen, would." "We won't mind Mr. Fox.
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