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Updated: June 18, 2025
"But Nolla owns half of this mine, and I'm not so sure but you and Bob come in for your share!" The other girls stared at Polly's generosity, as they had never thought of holding any interest in the mine. "Anyway, nobody owns it yet! It legally belongs to the first one who files a claim, so what we must do is to hurry back to Oak Creek and register the mine," said Barbara, businesslike. "My!
He lived on his estate in Sils valley, which was famous for its fruit. He was always the most welcome guest in his sister's house. He had been away on a journey and had not made his appearance for several weeks in Nolla, and his coming was therefore greeted with special enthusiasm.
Sary was too excited to wait and open the box in her own room, so she tore off the paper at once. A lovely rainbow-tinted chiffon scarf lay revealed, the predominating colors being violet. "Ah-h-h! Ah'm clean locoed, Miss Nolla! Not a soul'll ever know that rusty black alpacky is th' same dress Miss Pearson mourned her husband in fer five years before Ah got it given me!" "What nonsense!
She thanked him, and he left, wondering how quickly he could throw together a faculty dinner on Saturday if they decided to RSVP. The dinner never happened, because while Justin sat in his third period Physics course, Mr. Nolla entered his wife's class and shot her dead in front of her twenty-six students. When he shot himself a few moments later, he had the decency to do it outside.
"You see, Eleanor is broad-minded more like her father, but Bob takes too much after her mother to adapt herself readily to such a radical change as a ranch," continued Anne, apologetically. "Eleanor appears to be a nice girl." "Bob will shortly be as satisfied as Nolla, but she just can't let go of herself and her foolish training in a minute.
"You can color your words as rashly and with as vivid colors as you choose, Nolla, but I say that when you begin to infer that the coloring is of my choosing and that I am in hearty sympathy with the way you win out in matters, then I will balk and if necessary, deny it in the future. I hate color when it is daubed on falsely!"
But you must let me know, first, so my father can meet you two and see that you are shown about in true style." "Nolla, that Ah will, when we-all get time to go thar.
"What does your mother do, Nolla?" asked Polly, sympathetically. "Oh, she is a society leader, you know. She goes calling, and has bridge parties every week. Then she has her teas and dinners, and the balls, or theater parties, in season.
Oh, Nolla, Nolla! how much you have to change your old ways of thinking and talking before you can feel as honest and wise as Anne Stewart or Polly!" It was very late when the doctor reached the ranch, that night, and having examined the still unconscious man, pronounced his opinion to the men who had accompanied him from the house.
He kept noticing how his colleagues would look at him and whisper... or how their conversations would stop when he entered the room. Finally, he resigned, sold everything, and moved to Arizona. Sometimes he would call his sister; usually, he talked to his niece, Julia. The friends he left behind had heard that he had visited Mrs. Nolla the morning of the shooting.
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