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He made up his mind he would set Miss Cotton and the Ladies' Aid to redouble their efforts towards improving the place. When the service ended with a long, slowly-droned psalm and the children filed quietly out, whispering even on the doorstep, the minister drew a deep breath of relief. He found himself walking up the hill with old John Hamilton and Peter McNabb.
You were afraid! But my father is used to fighting men not cowardly thieves! And as for riding in one of your trucks, I would die first!" She turned to McNabb. "Come on, Dad, we'll walk!" "But, daughter, it's a hundred miles!" "I don't care if it is five hundred miles! I'll walk, or crawl if I have to, rather than accept anything from that that rattlesnake! See, there is a little store.
"Just so. If McNabb, or his representative, is not here on the stroke of twelve, the day after to-morrow, with tender of a cash payment of ten percent. of the purchase price as stipulated in his contract, then he is out of the reckoning altogether. But why do you ask? You speak as though there were some doubt in your mind as to McNabb's appearance?" "You can never tell," answered Wentworth.
"Say, though," he exclaimed sympathetically, "all the fellows was sayin' last night it must be kind o' awkward for you, havin' Don pull you out. They're all wonderin' how Jessie Hamilton'll take it." If Mrs. McNabb had happened to take her patient's temperature at that moment she would have been highly alarmed. But it was impossible to resent Peter's blundering sympathy.
All you need to know is that at noon on the first day of July, you, or your legal representative, must be at the Gods Lake post of the Hudson's Bay Company, with a half million dollars in cash, or its equivalent and you'd better have all your arrangements made in advance, and allow plenty of time to get there." On the whole the afternoon was a disappointing one for Jean McNabb.
Closing the door, he inspected the case that contained the less valuable furs, and it was but the work of a moment to discover that the baum marten coat was missing. Dumbfounded, he stared at the empty space where the coat should have been. His brief inspection in the theatre had told him this was the coat Jean McNabb was wearing but where was the sable?
Orcutt most certainly would, for McNabb had once publicly compared it with her coat, much to the New York coat's detriment and Mrs. Orcutt's humiliation. It was not altogether loyalty for his employer that led him to plot the woman an uncomfortable evening, for he owed her a grudge on his own account.
The next moment he was welcoming the girl with a deference he would have scarce accorded to royalty. Supper over, McNabb left Jean to be entertained by Murchison, and strolled down to the landing to join Hedin. "Well, how's everything comin'?" he asked, as he seated himself beside the clerk upon a damaged York boat. "I wired you that the deal was closed, and the pulp-wood is safe.
If it is as ye say, I'll more than make it up to him. I promise ye, his name shall not suffer." "I love you, Dad. I know you are just but you're a hard-hearted old Scot, just the same. You don't make many mistakes, but you have made two about Oskar, and about hiring that Wentworth. I told you you'd be sorry." "Well, maybe ye're right," and John McNabb never blinked an eye.
"It come about in a business way, an' in a business way it's kept on. Not a dollar of McNabb money passes through the hands of Orcutt's Wolverine Bank an' he could have had it all, an' he knows it. "As ye know, I started out, a lad, with the Hudson's Bay Company, an' I'd got to be a factor when an old uncle of my mother's in Scotlan' died an' left me a matter of twenty thousand pounds sterling.
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