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Updated: June 13, 2025


Twice recently, as mentioned in these columns, the successor to an English property of some value was discovered, in the one case peddling oranges, and in the other digging a rancher's ditches, while now we have another instance in the Somasco valley.

"Yes," said the axeman gravely. "Still, your father made a little mistake. I'm Alton of Somasco." Then he turned and moved forward with a gesture that was almost courtly. "You are very welcome to this poor house of mine," he said.

Forel did so, and nodded when Alton concluded, "I think you should do what I want you to, because in the first place it will give you very little trouble, and if you can't take my word so far, I'm not fit to be trusted with your interests in the big deal we have in hand." "And in the second?" said Forel, who stood to benefit considerably by the success of the Somasco Consolidated, dryly.

"Of course," said Seaforth, who knew that the warm breezes from the Pacific occasionally drive back the rigorous winter that turns the northern portion of the mountain province into a white desolation. "They usually do, but we'll surmise that in place of them we get the back-draughts from the Pole?" "Then," said Alton dryly, "it would be a good deal nicer down at Somasco.

"The creek must be running high and Mr. Alton and his partner will be very wet," she said. "I am warming a few of Jack's old things for them. They cannot go back to Somasco to-night, you know." "I confess that it did not occur to me," said Townshead languidly. "No, I suppose one could scarcely expect them to, and we shall have to endure their company."

"Well," he said, "I owe Alton a good deal, and that's why I went up to Somasco when you told me, but he has been too much for me again, and now I feel it in me that if I'm wise I'll let that man alone."

Okanagan laughed softly. "Tolerably close on Somasco," he said. "I think they've heard us at the mill." Then as Seaforth listened, a shout came ringing across the glinting space before them that seemed curiously still. "Hold on. We're coming. Is that you and the others, Tom?" Okanagan laughed again, and the canoe stopped amidst the ice when the paddle fell from his hand.

"But," and Seaforth's horror was evident, "he may try again. There are more than the Somasco ranchers who would be sorry if he was successful Harry." Alton laughed, but the grating cachination sent a shiver through his companion. "Yes," he said, "I think he will, and that's why I'm waiting. He may give himself away the third time, and then it will be either him or me."

There was, it seemed, no possibility of the railroad being built to Somasco, he could only see disaster in front of him, and knew that with the hope of prosperity a brighter one had gone. He would be a poor man, and was a cripple, and for he had not forgotten his deficiencies could have laughed at the folly which had led him to grasp at that which could never be his.

Hallam, who had been watching him, nodded reflectively. "I guess you didn't expect to find me, or you wouldn't have come," he said. "Where were you going?" "To the railroad," said Damer. "Out of the country!" "Without telling me? That was kind of foolish of you. Still, you haven't much sense, anyway. You had quite a well-paid job at Somasco." "Well," said Damer dryly, "I haven't got it now."

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