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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Fifty wads of coin to hand back to fifty come-ons, and fifty return tickets for fifty fellows glad to get back tough luck, ain't it?" Andy smiled sympathetically. "You oughta be glad I saved your conscience that much of a load, anyway." Florence Grace Hallman bit her lip to control her rage. "Smart talk isn't going to help you, Mr. Green.
He smoked until he saw an angry retort parting the red lips of the lady, and then continued calmly: "The Flying U has got nothing to do with this case. As a matter of fact, old man Whitmore is pretty sore at us fellows right now, because we quit him and turned nesters right under his nose. Miss Hallman, you'll have one sweet time proving that we ain't bona fide settlers.
He was headed for home which was the Flying U sober and sunny and with enough money to see him through. He told Florence Hallman his name, and said that he lived "up the road a ways" without being too definite. Florence Hallman lived in Minneapolis, she said; though she traveled most of the time, in the interests of her firm. Yes, she liked the real estate business.
Hallman had kept a store there then for more than ten years, and had a good part of the business of buying and shipping copra and selling supplies to the natives and a few whites. He lived in a shack back of his little store, with his native woman and four or five half-naked children. They told me queer stories about his madness for women.
I'd like to get in on this land deal. Fact is, I'm going to make it my business to get in on it. Maybe my way of working won't suit you but I'll sure work hard for any boss and do the best I know how." "I think that will suit me," Miss Hallman assured him, and smiled unsuspectingly up into his eyes, which she thought she could read so easily. "When shall I see you again?
Of course he's a half-Marquesan the son and looks it. I know them all, and only yesterday I heard Hallman call his son on the main-deck, away from where any one could see him, and threaten him with 'putting him back in the jungle, where he came from, if he appeared again near the first-class space. I tell you, I'd hate to be in his hands if I was in his way."
Florence Grace Hallman had been busy arranging the details of the coming of the colony, and she had neglected to visit the land office lately. Since she cannily represented the excursion as being merely a sight-seeing trip or some such innocuous project she failed also to receive any inkling of recent settlements.
Whereupon Pink gave her a distressed look that made Miss Hallman flush unmistakably. "I'm just about distracted, this morning," she apologized. "I took it upon myself to see these settlers through and everybody makes it just as hard as possible for me. Why should all you fellows treat us the way you do? We " "Why, we aren't doing a thing!" Pink protested diffidently.
To Florence Grace Hallman they gave no heed, believing that she had done her worst, and that her worst was after all pretty weak, since the contests she had caused to be filed could not possibly be approved by the government so long as the Happy Family continued to abide by every law and by-law and condition and requirement in their present through-going and exemplary manner.
"Maybe they think you've forgotten the date or something but whatever they think, I believe they're counting on your not answering in time. I think Florence Hallman knows they haven't any real proof against you. I know she knows it. She's perfectly wild over the way you boys have stuck here and worked.
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