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He had another vision of Simmons; it was two hundred and fifty dollars that the latter wanted, must have, to-morrow. But Simmons swiftly faded before Clare's need, the pressure of sickness. "She couldn't go down in the stage," he muttered, "the shaking would kill her before ever she got there." "I'll drive her to Stenton, Gordon," the doctor volunteered, "if you've got the money handy."
Viewed from the necessity of the driver of the Stenton stage this phenomenon was highly undesirable, the glassy road enormously increased the labor of the horses; Gordon's vigilance might not for a minute be relaxed. The blazing sun blurred his vision, the cold crept insidiously into his bones.
He must apportion his expenditures more carefully; or, better yet, give all his money to Clare; the high-power rifle he had purchased in Stenton the year before had crippled their resources; his last Christmas present to Clare had been a heavy drain; he had not yet recovered from the generous funeral he had given their mother. He was unaccustomed to such considerations.
Utterly unprepared for this direct attack he was thoroughly disconcerted. "Why, certainly!" he replied, laboriously polite, "the next time I'll do it! when I'm in Stenton again I'll bring you a pair of silk stockings." "Black," she said practically, "and size eight and a half. You will like me in black silk stockings," she added enigmatically. "I'll bet," he replied with enthusiasm.
An iron safe stood against the wall at Gordon's back, and above it hung a large calendar, advertising the Stenton Realty and Trust Company. A sudden gloom swept over the room, and Gordon rose, proceeded to the door.
Gordon paid Valentine Simmons eighty-nine thousand dollars for the latter's share of the timber options they had held in common. They were seated in the room in which Gordon conducted his peculiar transactions. He turned and placed Simmons' acknowledgment, the various papers of the dissolved partnership, in the safe. "That finishes all I had in Stenton," he observed.
He'll be on the Stenton stage this evening," he added. "I got word last night he was coming." They lounged to the entrance of the store, gazing over the still road, in the direction from which the stage would arrive. Valentine Simmons was in his office; and, as Gordon passed, he knocked on the glass of the enclosure, and beckoned the other to enter.
"The hospital," he echoed dully, "Stenton." "By rights," the doctor iterated; "of course we'll do what we can here, she might last for a couple of years more without cutting; and then, again, her heart might just quit. Still " "What would the hospital cost?" Gordon asked, almost unaware of having pronounced the words. "It'd be dear two hundred and some dollars anyway, and the money on the nail.
Each of the principal rooms had its fireplace and often a large parlor, drawing-room or library had two fireplaces, usually at opposite ends or sides, though rarely on the same side, as in the library at Stenton.
He possessed large sums lying at the Stenton banks, automatically returning him interest, profit; thrown in the scale their weight would go far toward balancing the greed of Valentine Simmons, of Cannon.
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