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Updated: May 26, 2025
"The reason you've had to hold out for your rate until right now was that nobody would pay it," said Sam confidently. "Now I'm here to talk spot cash. I'll give you, say, a thousand dollars down, and the balance immediately upon measurement as the logs are loaded upon the cars." The old man nodded in approval. "The terms is all right," he said. "How much will you take F. O. B. Restview?"
The youngish-looking man who so vigorously swung off the train at Restview, wore a pair of intensely dark blue eyes which immediately photographed everything within their range of vision flat green country, shaded farm-houses, encircling wooded hills and all weighed it and sorted it and filed it away for future reference; and his clothes clung on him with almost that enviable fit found only in advertisements.
"You name the very lowest price you'll take, delivered on board the cars at Restview." The old man reached down, pulled up a blade of grass, chewed it carefully, spit it out, and named his very, very lowest price; then he added: "What's the most you'll give?" Miss Stevens leaned forward intently. Sam very promptly named a figure five dollars lower.
At ten o'clock also Sam was due at Hollis Creek to take his long deferred drive with Miss Stevens. It was a slight conflict, her engagement, but the solution to that was very easy. As early in the morning as he dared, Sam called up Miss Josephine. "I've some glorious news," he said hopefully. "My kid brother will arrive at Restview on the ten o'clock train."
"But that doesn't suit me at all," he assured her. "Why can't you be ready at nine in place of ten, let me call for you at that time and drive over to Restview with me to meet Jack?" "Is that his name?" she asked in blissfully reassuring tones. "You've never spoken of him as anybody but your 'kid brother. Why of course I'll drive over to Restview with you. I shall be delighted to meet him."
It was a pleasant ride they had to Restview, and it was a pleasant surprise which greeted Miss Josephine when the train arrived, for out of it stepped a youth who was unmistakably a Turner. He was as tall as Sam, but slighter, and as clean a looking boy as one would find in a day's journey.
One look at Miss Stevens, after he had traveled two years to reach Restview, made him suddenly intoxicated, for in her eyes there was ravenous hunger for him and he read it, and feeling rather sure of his ground he determined that now was the time to strike. With that decisive end in view he dropped Jack at Meadow Brook and went right on over to Hollis Creek with Miss Josephine.
Your plan is much better than mine. I can see myself, for instance, driving along that road on my way to Hollis Creek from Restview, looking over that beautiful little lake to the hotel beyond, and saying to myself: 'Well, next summer I won't stop at Hollis Creek. I'll stop at Lake Jo." "I thought it was to be Lake Josephine," she interposed.
Sam rode on home at the side of Miss Westlake, after leaving Miss Stevens at Hollis Creek, in a strange and nebulous state of elation, which continued until bedtime. As he was about to retire he was handed a wire from his brother: "Just received patent papers meet me at Restview morning train." The morning train was due at ten o'clock.
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