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But Albert said nothing. He detested Plausaby's ethics, but was not insensible to his flattery. "And as for a claim, Albert, I will attend to that. I will see to it. I know a good chance for you to make two thousand dollars fairly hi a month. A very good chance. Very good, indeed. There is a claim adjoining this town-site which was filed on by a stage-driver. Reckless sort of a fellow.
Will you tell me whether that paper was of the nature of a will or deed or in short, what was its character?" "I will not tell you anything about it. It is Mrs. Plausaby's secret. I suppose you get your information from Mrs. Ferret. If she chooses to tell you the contents, she may." "You are a little sharp, Miss Marlay. I understand that Mrs. Ferret does not know the contents of that paper.
Plausaby's way of doing business, and he therefore determined to satisfy his conscience by having a row with his step-father. And so he startled his sister and shocked his mother, and made the house generally uncomfortable, by making, in season and out of season, severe remarks on the subject of land speculation, and particularly of land-sharks.
Plausaby, and that lady, after much vacillation, signed it with a feeble hand. Then Isabel wrote her own name as a witness. But she wanted another witness. At this moment Mrs. Ferret came in, having an instinctive feeling that a second visit from Lurton boded something worth finding out. Isa took her into Mrs. Plausaby's room and told her to witness this paper. "Well," said pertinacious Mrs.
If he has told it, there is no use of my saying anything," and she covered up her face in a stubborn, childish petulance. Mr. Lurton wisely left the room. Mrs. Plausaby's fears of death soon awakened again, and she begged Isa to ask Mr. Lurton to come back.
Lurton had staid during the meeting of the ecclesiastical body Presbytery, Consociation, Convention, Conference, or what not, it does not matter at Squire Plausaby's Albert had written about him, and Isa, as soon as she heard that he was to attend, had prompted Plausaby to enter a request with the committee on the entertainment of delegates for the assignment of Mr. Lurton to him as guest.
Having resigned his Stillwater pastorate from a conviction that his ministry among red-shirted lumbermen was not a great success, he armed himself with letters from the warden of the prison and the other ministers who had served as chaplains, and, above all, with Mrs. Plausaby's written confession, and set out for Washington.
He stepped out of the door of the sick-chamber, and there, right before him, was Plausaby, his smooth face making a vain endeavor to keep its hold upon itself. But Lurton saw at once that Plausaby had heard the prayer in which he had framed Mrs. Plausaby's confession to Isa into a solemn and specific confession to God.
Ferret, "I'll have to know what is in it, won't I?" "No, you only want to know that this is Mrs. Plausaby's signature," and Isa placed her fingers over the paper in such a way that Mrs. Ferret could not read it. "Did you sign this, Mrs. Plausaby?" The sick woman said she did. "Do you know what is in it?" "Yes, but but it's a secret." "Did you sign it of your own free will, or did Mr.
"Besides," continued Squire Plausaby, "once let it get out that the Baptist University is going to occupy that block, and there'll be a great demand " "For all the blocks around," said the eager fat gentleman, growing impatient at Plausaby's long-windedness. "Precisely. For all the blocks around," went on Plausaby. "And I want to hold on to as much of the property in this quarter as "
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