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From up the canon came the sound of a puffing locomotive that presently steamed by them with its three dingy little coaches, and, after a stop for water and the throwing of a switch, pushed back to connect with the Shepler car. The others of the party crowded out on to the rear platform as Percival helped Miss Milbrey up the steps.
"Now, don't lecture!" "But Shepler is one of the richest men in New York." "Dad already suspects as much." "And he's kind, he's a big-hearted chap, a man of the world, generous a " "'A woman fancier, Fidelia Oldaker calls him." "My dear, if he fancies you " "There, you old conservative, I've heard all his good points, and my duty has been written before me in letters of fire.
It's a providence. You engaged couples are always so dull when you're banished from your own ciel a deux." Shepler bowed and greeted the two men.
You shall take me in for that." "I'll have to give you a credit-slip, ma'am. You've overpaid me." And Mrs. Oldaker, with a coy fillip of her fan, called him a naughty boy. "Here, Rulon," she called to Shepler, "are two young daredevils who've been good enough to save me as many empty chairs. Now you shall take out Cornelia, and this juvenile sprig shall relieve you of Avice Milbrey.
He would have her, and Shepler Shepler might have had the One Girl mine but this girl, never! Again he tried faithfully to walk off the obsession. Again were his essays at sober reason unavailing. His mind was set as it had been when he bought the stocks day after day against the advice of the best judges in the Street. He could not turn himself back. There must be success.
The money was gone all of Uncle Peter's complaints and biting sarcasms came back to him with renewed bitterness; but his revenge on Uncle Peter would be in showing him a big man at work, with no nonsense about him. But Shepler, who was now certain, and Higbee, who had always been certain, especially Shepler, with his easy sense of superiority with a woman over any poor man.
Uncle Peter had evidently been chatting with Shepler, for as they came out the old man was saying, "'Get action' is my motto. Do things. Don't fritter. Be something and be it good and hard. Get action early and often." Shepler nodded. "But men like us are apt to be unreasonable with the young. We expect them to have their own vigour and our wisdom, and the infirmities of neither."
Here, too, is Rulon Shepler, the money-god, his large, round head turning upon his immense shoulders without the aid of a neck sharp-eyed, grizzled, fifty, short of stature, and with as few illusions concerning life as the New York financier is apt to retain at his age. If we be forced to wait for another guest of note, it is hardly more than her due; for Mrs.
You tell the clerk or whoever holds you up that Mr. Peter Bines wants an appointment with Mr. Shepler as soon as he can make it Mr. Peter Bines, of Montana City. Be there by 9.30 so's to get him soon as he comes. He knows me; tell him I want to see him on business soon as possible, and find out when he can give me time. And don't you say to any one else that I ever seen him or sent you there.
"Horace," said his wife, impressively, "Avice has had an offer of marriage from " He looked up with new interest. "From Rulon Shepler." He dropped knife and fork. Shepler, the man of mighty millions! The undisputed monarch of finance!
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