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Arter that he say Squire an Deacon Edwards, and Deacon Nash, an Cap'n Stoddard an heap more, an Jake he go too, gonter git up arly, at tree o'clock to-morrer, with guns; make no noise go roun creepy, creepy, creepy."
It was a meal upon which Sallie Kingsbury expended her best powers as cook, with no mean results; but nobody took much notice of it, after all. Mrs. Stoddard poured her tea into her saucer, drinking and eating absent-mindedly. Her face lighted with something very like a smile whenever she caught Agatha's eyes, but to her talk was not necessary.
George Drewyer return from St Louis and brought 99 Dollars, he lost a letter from Cap Lewis to me, Seven Ladies visit me to day Stoddard, Lieuts. Milford & Worrell together with Messrs. A. Chouteau, C. Gratiot, and many other respectable inhabitants of St. Louis, who had engaged to accompany me to the Vilage of St.
What kind of a business man would I be if I left this to McVicker and Ord? No, I'm going to send to San Francisco, and Denver, and Butte, and retain every mining attorney I can get. It's the only thing to do; but listen, my friend, I'm not going to tell anybody but you. So if Stoddard finds this out, or McVicker and Ord, or whatever blackleg lawyers Ike Bray has, I'll just know where to go.
"I don't deserve it," she said, "to have you help me, because I started to do you a wrong. I didn't know you then, nor your generous heart and so I made the agreement with Stoddard. I was to go to Gunsight and get acquainted with you and get you to come back to New York and for that I was to receive two thousand shares of Tecolote stock.
Even Hassayamp and L. W. agreed in this, although L. W. insisted upon staking him and declared it was all his own fault. But Mary Fortune, whether she gloried in his fall or pitied him for his great loss, kept discreetly out of his way. She faced him the first time at the special meeting when Stoddard came to lay down his terms.
Then multiply it by five, or ten, or twenty, whatever you think it's worth, and make me an offer on paper." "Not at all! Not at all!" rapped out Stoddard hastily, "I'm in the market to buy." "Well, then, make me an offer," said Rimrock bluffly, "or Miss Fortune here, if she'd like to sell. Here, I'll tell you what you do you name me a figure that you'll either buy at, or sell!
A wonderful thing is going to happen to me. Isn't it wonderful, Uncle Enos?" Aunt Martha and Uncle Enos both smiled and nodded, and Amanda looked from one to the other in great surprise. "Run along with Amanda and tell her all about it," said Mrs. Stoddard, and the two little girls started happily off.
"Why should you say that?" asked Stoddard abruptly. "Those two do not belong to the same class. They " "Oh, Mr. Stoddard! They grew up side by side; they went to school together, and I imagine were sweethearts long before they came to Cottonville." "Do you think that makes them of the same class?" asked Stoddard impatiently. "I should say the presumption was still greater the other way.
"Let's walk up and down I don't dare to go out alone, or the boys will all get me drunk. But that's right," he went on, "I've been thinking it over you can forgive, but you never forget." "Well, perhaps so," she replied, "but I don't spend much of my time in planning out some elaborate revenge. Now those marble steps do you know what Mr. Stoddard said when he came out to inspect the mine?"
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