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Updated: June 13, 2025
I eat whatever I like. I've gained twenty pounds, and I'm having the time of my life. I'm even enjoying being a genealogist a little. I've about exhausted the resources of Hillerton, and have begun to make trips to the neighboring towns. I can even spend an afternoon in an old cemetery copying dates from moss-grown gravestones, and not entirely lose my appetite for dinner I mean, supper.
Besides, I want my family together again. I haven't seen a thing of my children for six months." Elizabeth gave a silvery laugh. "Hillerton? Ho! You wouldn't really doom us to Hillerton all summer, daddy." "What's the matter with Hillerton?" "What isn't the matter with Hillerton?" laughed the daughter again. "But I thought we we would have lovely auto trips," stammered her mother apologetically.
"You aren't, dear, you aren't," fluttered Fred's mother hurriedly; "and I'm sure it's lovely you've got the chance to go to the Gaylords' camp. And it's right, quite right, that we should travel this summer, as Bessie er Elizabeth suggests. I never thought; but, of course, you young people don't want to be hived up in Hillerton all summer!"
"N-no," she admitted reluctantly, "except that that you'd be doing right." "But WOULD I be doing right? And another thing aside from the mortification, dismay, and anger of my good cousins, have you thought what I'd be bringing on you?" "Yes. In less than half a dozen hours after the Blaisdells knew that Mr. John Smith was Stanley G. Fulton, Hillerton would know it.
Altogether Hillerton placed a high value upon his confidential clerk, and it was with a very genuine good-will that he followed up the last recorded observation, by saying, carelessly: "I hope you've kept out of the thing yourself, Peckham." "Oh, yes!" Peckham answered, in a tone of indifference, copied after Hillerton's own.
I'm going to Egypt, and China, and Japan with you, of course; and books oh, you never saw such a lot of books as I shall buy. And oh, I'll spend heaps on just my selfish self you see if I don't! But, first, oh, there are so many things that I've so wanted to do, and it's just come over me this minute that NOW I can do them! And you KNOW how Hillerton needs a new hospital."
But it was all so new and complicated, and everybody was always talking at once, so! No wonder, indeed, that Miss Flora was quite breathless with it all. By the time the Blaisdells found themselves able to pay attention to Hillerton, or to anything outside their own astounding personal affairs, they became suddenly aware of the attention Hillerton was paying to THEM. The whole town was agog.
The lawyers were bland and courteous, but they really had nothing to say, they declared, beyond the already published facts. In Hillerton the Blaisdells accepted this notoriety with characteristic variation.
Smith utter so remarkable an exclamation as he left the room that first day. During the stay of Mr. Norton in Hillerton, and for some days afterward, the Blaisdells were too absorbed in the mere details of acquiring and temporarily investing their wealth to pay attention to anything else. Under the guidance of Mr. Norton, Mr.
I have opened the envelope entitled "Terms of Trust," and find that I am directed to convert the securities into cash with all convenient speed, and forthwith to pay over one third of the net proceeds to his kinsman, Frank G. Blaisdell; one third to his kinsman, James A. Blaisdell; and one third to his kinswoman, Flora B. Blaisdell, all of Hillerton.
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