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Updated: May 12, 2025
"'Hold up your right hand, every woman present who is willing to pledge herself to give never another dollar to foreign missions or to the support of the church until her children have schools nine months in the year! "And would you believe it, nearly all of them held up their hands. Some of the old women shouted! Mrs. Sasnett said it resembled a love-feast. She said they crowded around Mrs.
I prayed the opening prayer myself. Then I had some calls to make. It was after I went out that it happened," the inference being that had he remained it could not possibly have happened. "The minutes were read. Mrs. Sasnett made an address. Then, as is the custom, she opened the meeting for general discussion. "She said that before any one else had time to get up, Mrs.
She's beginning to powder her nose, and she's bought a new bonnet, thank God!" said Bob Sasnett with his usual laugh. When the directors were leaving the bank after indignantly electing Mrs. Walton to the board, Coleman looked at Sasnett suspiciously. "Where do you stand in this damn business, anyhow, Bob?" he demanded.
"Ask your wife," Sasnett suggested. "I did ask Mabel," Acres admitted. "What'd she say?" "Said they'd collect the rents and interest first thing." Sasnett laughed, and Briggs seized his hat and left the room with the air of an injured man.
Sasnett!" exclaimed Selah, as he advanced from the deep shade of an elm tree beside the road, where he appeared to have been standing. "No, not 'Mr. Sasnett! I left him an hour since, vainly contending with Susan Walton, in the effort to gain her consent for the bank to extend the loan to the Acres Mercantile Company another six months, and " Selah laughed. "Don't interrupt, Minerva!
Sasnett' upon this beautiful moonlight night when of all times I should be most tenderly Bob?" "I can't explain," she answered. "What is the matter with everybody in this town, especially the women? It hasn't been an hour since mother came home and said she couldn't explain when I asked her why she was so upset." "She was upset then?" asked the girl curiously. "Most awfully!
"If I know anything about such dozing, it would take an earthquake to rouse him now!" he answered, laughing. Selah sighed and withdrew her hand. "If you do that, dear, I shall seize more!" he whispered, leaning forward and slipping his arm around her waist. "Don't, Mr. Sasnett!" she said so coolly that he drew back and stared at her. "'Mr. Sasnett, and when did I cease to be Bob, pray?
"And he told me he handles mortgages on nineteen thousand acres of land in this county," laughed the third man, who was young and who had been listening with the detached air of a humourist. "You can afford to laugh, Sasnett," retorted the banker; "you are one of the few men in this town not affected by this er disaster.
For the first time in their lives they figured in the headlines of city newspapers, with their pictures on the front page. Susan Walton laughed at their vanity till her fat stomach shook like jelly. Bob Sasnett figured as the first candidate in Jordan County who would run for office on the crinoline ticket. "Mr. Sasnett is extremely optimistic.
You'll have the organizing to do among the women in the country districts. But we've decided to get a good motor. You'll need to cover distances rapidly. That will be one agreeable feature at least. You and Bob Sasnett may find it convenient to do your canvassing together!" she laughed, while Selah blushed.
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