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Updated: June 13, 2025
It was in February that a certain metropolitan reporter, short for feature articles, ran up to Hillerton and contributed to his paper, the following Sunday, a write-up on "The Blaisdells One Year After," enlarging on the fine new homes, the motor cars, and the luxurious living of the three families.
And yet on Wednesday, as on Monday and on Tuesday, he did his office work and superintended that of his subordinates methodically and exactly. The substratum of character which the long-headed Hillerton had built upon, held firm. On Wednesday evening Peckham stood, wild-eyed and haggard, in the light of Estabrook's drug-store and scanned the faces of the foot-passengers.
Everybody in Hillerton understands. You see, father is nervous, and not at all well. We have to humor him." "But do you mean that you always have to tell him to do what you don't want, in order to well that is " Mr. Smith, finding himself in very deep water, blushed again painfully. Miss Maggie met his dismayed gaze with cheerful candor.
Here in Hillerton her hundred and two-hundred-dollar dresses looked very grand to her, but she's discovered that there are women who pay five hundred and a thousand, and even more. She feels very cheap and poverty-stricken now, therefore, in her two-hundred-dollar gowns. Poor Hattie! If she only would stop trying to live like somebody else!"
He would first visit by turns all the Hillerton Blaisdells, he decided; then, when he had exhausted their resources, he would, of course, turn to the town records and cemeteries of Hillerton and the neighboring villages. Armed with a pencil and a very businesslike looking notebook, therefore, he started at two o'clock for the home of James Blaisdell. Remembering Mr.
Peckham spoke the truth, as it happened, but he would probably have made the same answer whether it had been true or not. He was of the opinion that he was not accountable to Hillerton nor to any one else in the disposition he might make of his legitimate earnings.
Big metropolitan dailies got wind of the affair, recognized the magic name of Stanley G. Fulton, and sent reporters post-haste to Hillerton. Speculation as to whether the multi-millionaire was really dead was prevalent everywhere, and a search for some clue to his reported South American exploring expedition was undertaken in several quarters.
Then other papers will copy. There's sure to be unpleasant publicity, my dear, if the truth once leaks out." "But what what HAD you planned to do?" she faltered, shuddering again. "Well, I HAD planned something like this: pretty quick, now, Mr. Smith was to announce the completion of his Blaisdell data, and, with properly grateful farewells, take his departure from Hillerton.
I'd give a farm to be a fly on YOUR wall and see you do it. I'm blest if I don't think I'll go to Hillerton myself to see Bob. By George, I will go and see Bob!" "Of course," agreed the other serenely. "Why not? Besides, it will be the most natural thing in the world business, you know. In fact, I should think you really ought to go, in connection with the bequests." "Why, to be sure."
"As if it wasn't quite the finest thing Hillerton ever had except the Gaylord parties, of course," bridled Mrs. Hattie, turning to Mr. Smith. "That's just daughter's way of teasing me and, of course, now she IS where she sees the real thing in entertaining she goes home with those rich girls in her school, you know. But this is a nice party, isn't it Mr. Smith?" "It certainly is."
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