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He kept about eighty acres that was off in some piece by itself, but the three hundred that had the old brick house on it, and the big barn that went, and Dryfoos bought him a place in Moffitt and moved into town to live on the interest of his money. Just What he had scolded and ridiculed everybody else for doing. Well, they say that at first he seemed like he would go crazy.
Well, they've always known about the gas out there; they say there are places in the woods where it's been burning ever since the country was settled. "But when you come in sight of Moffitt my, oh, my! Well, you come in smell of it about as soon.
He took his place at a table where the overworked waiter found time to cut up his meat and put everything in easy reach of his right hand. "Well," Fulkerson resumed, "they took me round everywhere in Moffitt, and showed me their big wells lit 'em up for a private view, and let me hear them purr with the soft accents of a mass-meeting of locomotives.
Beaton gloomily refused, and she kept herself from asking the student of human nature, till she had got him into her carriage, "What is Moffitt, and what did you say about it?" "Now you see, Margaret," said Mrs. Horn, with bated triumph, when the people were all gone. "Yes, I see," the girl consented. "From one point of view, of course it's been a failure.
If you're not in a hurry, though " "Not in the least. Go on as long as you like." "I met him there in the office of a real-estate man speculator, of course; everybody was, in Moffitt; but a first-rate fellow, and public-spirited as all get-out; and when Dryfoos left he told me about him.
Beaton gloomily refused, and she kept herself from asking the student of human nature, till she had got him into her carriage, "What is Moffitt, and what did you say about it?" "Now you see, Margaret," said Mrs. Horn, with bated triumph, when the people were all gone. "Yes, I see," the girl consented. "From one point of view, of course it's been a failure.
James Moffitt, a stockholder in the company and the owner of the building named, kindly secured for us two rooms in that building for an office. They were on the third floor facing Broadway and the location and the habitat of the company was disclosed by a canvas sign which, banner-like, hung upon the outer wall proclaiming this to be the office of the California Insurance Company.
Well, they're all there in Moffitt yet, but architecture has struck it hard, and they've got a lot of new buildings that needn't be ashamed of themselves anywhere; the new court-house is as big as St. Peter's, and the Grand Opera-house is in the highest style of the art.
His ambition stopped at nothing, nothing but the question of expense; there he had to wait the return of the elder Dryfoos from the West, and Dryfoos was still delayed at Moffitt, and Fulkerson openly confessed that he was afraid he would stay there till his own enthusiasm escaped in other activities, other plans.
Why, there were some things about it that made you think what a nice kind of world this would be if people ever took hold together, instead of each fellow fighting it out on his own hook, and devil take the hindmost. They made up their minds at Moffitt that if they wanted their town to grow they'd got to keep their gas public property.
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