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Updated: April 30, 2025
But it don't need to cut no ice. I take it you're askin' me to fix things right at the Obars till you get around. That so?" Jeff nodded. He was feeling that he was doing something mean, even brutal. He knew that what he contemplated must result in the bitterest disappointment to his old friend. He had well enough known throughout their partnership Bud's yearning desire that he should marry Nan.
Jest marry her instead," Bud broke in with his gentlest smile. "You're all sorts of a boy, Jeff, and I don't figger you got call to talk about the dust of any woman's shoes. But I guess ther's times when it's good fer a man to feel he ain't as big as he's told. Anyways, you get right ahead, and leave me to the Obars. I ain't goin' to fail you now, any more than any other time."
Nan, in her riding costume, was waiting while her father exchanged a few parting words with the hotel manager. "Guess you're right. It's been a darn good week this year. The best in my memory. I'd say the Conference was a heap better attended, an' the weather's been just great. We got through a deal o' legislation, too. Guess things are goin' to hum, with the Obars at the head of 'em this year.
"One hundred an' forty-two young Obars to-day, my Daddy," she cried out exuberantly. "Ther' don't seem any end to last year's crop. Say, Jeff's just crazy to death about things." "He surely is." The old man's reply was tinged by a reflection of his thoughts. But his eyes lit nevertheless. Nan regarded him seriously. "Most men get a grouch when they're kept waiting food," she observed slily.
But when it's all figgered right, why, the real practical man needs to get busy or the figgers aren't worth the ink an' paper you've used to make 'em. Bud's the feller of the Obars. I just sit around and talk wise when he needs talk, which I don't guess is frequent." Jeff's smile was genuine. There was no false modesty that made him place the credit of the Obar's success at Bud's door.
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