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"Then," said the alderman, "I have already in mind the very place for you, where none of your rancorous late associates can ever find you, on an Imperial stock-farm or breeding-ranch in the uplands, among the forested mountains.
For one thing she was becoming too friendly with some of his friends Desmond in particular. Plank, it was known, had opened his great house at Black Fells. His servants, gamekeepers, were there; his stables, kennels, greenhouses, model stock-farm all had been put in immaculate condition pending the advent of the master.
He felt very contented. "I got your mail for you," said Smith, handing him an envelope. "I've a letter of my own to read, so tackle yours while we walk along." They went up toward the stock-farm, and the boy opened his mother's letter and read eagerly the home news and the affectionate questions.
It was Beltran who had first flung him astride the saddle and sent him loping off to town alone, but who had secretly followed him from thicket to thicket, and stood ready in the market-place at last to lift him down; it was Beltran who had given him his own rifle, had taught him to take the bird on the wing, had led him out at night to see the great silent alligator in his scale-armor sliding over the land from the coast and plunging into the fresh waters of the bay, who took him with him on the long journeys for gathering in the cattle of the vast stock-farm, let him sleep beside himself on the bare prairie-floor, like a man, with his horse tethered to his boot, told him the spot in the game on which to draw his bead, showed him what part to dress, and made him chef de cuisine in every camp they crossed; it was he who had taught him how to hold himself in any wild stampede, on the prairie how to conquer fire with fire, to find water as much his element as air; it is Beltran, in short, who has made him this little marvel which at twelve years old he finds himself to be, this brother who serves him so, and whom he adores, for whom he passionately expresses his devotion, this brother whom he loves as he loves the very life he lives.
The Lord only knows what means he used, for, as you say, she still loves me." "Folks say Henley turns up his nose at common folks now," Bradley went on. "He's planning a great stock-farm, and going to keep fine-blooded race-horses, and him and his wife is going to travel about and see the world. Things certainly run crooked in this life."
Hamilton had seen that, but Hamilton's hand had not had the light touch for the delicacy of the task's beginnings. Her mind flashed back to her girlhood. She was standing at the paddock fence of her grandfather's stock-farm in Kentucky. Even in her childish heart there had been a mighty pride for the old gold and blue that were the colors of her grandfather's stables.
He got up a party and made a palace-car excursion to the Yellowstone Park. He purchased a stock-farm in California. He hired a steam yacht and cruised in the Baltic. From the middle of March until the end of September he used the world as if it were his. But then, a change came o'er the spirit of his red mustaches. They ceased to sport about his nose.
We were courteously met by Major Alvord, the agent in charge of the entire estate. I explained the object of my visit, and he kindly gave us a few moments, showing us through the different barns and stables. Our eyes grew large with wonder as we saw the complete appliances for carrying on an immense stock-farm.
This was his great stock-farm. These were his own cattle as much his as any one else's; and he had nothing more to do but set to killing and curing. As to his trade with the Indians, that would take place whenever he should chance to fall in with a party which he would be certain to do in the course of the season.
He's got work there, on a stock-farm among strangers. He hasn't taken a drink since October. He's making a new start, with nothing to remind him of what's past. I ... hope he will be happy yet." Carlisle's breast rose and fell. "Why do you tell this to me?" "Because," said Vivian, "I've felt I did you such a wrong that night...."
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