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That one of your humble origin can estimate the impression upon another of such an offer as you made to my nephew is quite beyond expectation. The Hertfords have always been gentlemen and ladies and you would send the last of the race, by the power of your vulgar money, to work among common labourers in order to break his spirit and pride!
From that day Lansing Treadwell fell into the hands of Smith Crothers, and the plotting evolved so naturally, so apparently wisely, that no shock or sense of injustice aroused all that was good in the last of the Hertfords.
"Well, we'll cut all the windows you want and have the school and" Markham was quivering "we'll see if the Morleys can't rise up in the land of their fathers and stamp the Hertfords under foot!" "Yes, sir!" And then Sandy gave one of his rare, rich laughs. From that day the preparations began.
"What did you say?" he gasped; "what name did you say?" "Hertford, sir." "What do you know of the Hertfords?" It was all Markham could do to hold his emotions in abeyance. Sandy told his father's story, all but that which related to the Waldens, and the listener hung on every word. "And so, sir, don't you see, I must be what they-all, my kith and kin, couldn't be?
The strain of the Markham blood rushed hotly, at the instant, in Lans's veins. It gave him courage and strength to forget the Hertfords. He took Cynthia to Trouble Neck and manfully told Marcia Lowe what had occurred. The little doctor, worn by anxiety, was almost prostrated. "No one knows but what Cynthia was here all last night," she said. "I've lied to Tod Greeley.
Then you were Sandy cutting your way through your enemies like the Hertfords are to your family; I heard Aunt Ann telling Ivy and then right sudden I saw you hanging up in a gold frame with the ripply moonlight shining on you The Biggest of Them All!" Sandy's eyes were brilliant and glittering; his breath came quick and hard, and to steady himself he whispered: "I am going away to-night!"
"It was this er way. In them days us-all and the Hertfords was equals. The plantation lying off to the east of the old Hertford home place belonged to us-all" many and many were the quarts of berries and bushels of nuts Sandy had gathered from there! "but it slipped away it's all gone years past. My grandfather and Lansing Hertford was close friends none closer.
The curse will get the best of you, boy, and you'll come trailing home. I'll be here then! But " And now Martin came closer and held him by the thin, trembling shoulders. "Grandfather never done it! It was one man's word agin another's and the Hertfords have the luck they allus had.
He has really done us a good turn by throwing light on the past." "He he laughed!" muttered Martin. "They-all laugh that-er-way. Big things is little to them-all; and little things is big! Them Hertfords be no-count! They all sound upperty and look upperty, but they-all is trash!" "Come, come, Dad! Lans isn't trash. He's done me more than one good turn."
Lansing Hertford went off like a shot but them Hertfords allus lit out like they was chased never could stand loneliness and lack of luxury. Queenie, she done died the winter following that summer; died of lung trouble off to some hospital way off somewhere, and Miss Ann she settled down an old woman from that time on! You can't get her to speak Starr's name. You never could. Us-all tried.
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