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If he could get control, in any way whatsoever, of that one per cent. of the stock he could laugh at Stoddard and take his dividends to carry on his fight in coppers. He had neglected her before, but this time it would be different; she could have anything she asked. And his detectives were hunting for her everywhere. "Don't know," he answered after a dogged silence.
Why must you care at all what I think, or what my views are in this matter?" "Oh, I don't understand you at all," Lydia said distressfully. "No?" agreed Stoddard with an interrogative note in his voice. "But after all there's no need for people to be so determined to understand each other, is there?" Lydia looked at him with swimming eyes.
You see the children haven't had any schooling yet, and well, I'm a great, big, stout somebody, and it looks like I'm the one to work in the mill." She turned to him fleetingly a countenance of appeal and perplexity. It seemed indeed anything but certain that she was one to work in the mill. There was something almost grotesque in the idea which made Stoddard smile a little at her earnestness.
You're the only man we can trust in an extremity " "Positively no!" exclaimed Jepson firmly. "I absolutely refuse to touch it. I'll arrange the preliminaries, but after it's started you must look to your attorneys for the rest." "Oh, nonsense!" cried Stoddard, "isn't it perfectly legal? Won't the claim be open to location?
"I don't believe it!" she gasped. "You know who to find! You're just getting up this story to be noticed. You're always doing things to attract attention to yourself. You want to go riding around in an automobile and and Mr. Stoddard has probably gone in to Watauga and taken the midnight train for Boston. This looking around in the mountains is folly. Who would want to harm him in the mountains?"
And that girl out there the one I don't like she would have thrown her vote to Stoddard. That alone would give him control, they would have fifty per cent. of the stock." "No they wouldn't," corrected Rimrock, "not if you've got that two thousand. That would give us fifty-one per cent!"
"No, I should think not; but it's hard to tell how Rachel will take anything." This remark was amply verified. The sofa was removed while the spinster was out, and without any hint to her of what was going to happen. When she returned, she looked around for it with surprise. "Where's the sofy?" she asked. "We've sold it to Mrs. Stoddard," said Mrs. Harding, cheerfully.
To Stoddard, at the same time, there would come nearly the same amount of money, but it would be gone within a few days. There were obligations to be met, as Rimrock well knew, that would absorb his great profits and more. The Tecolote Mine, before it began to pay, had cost several million dollars in dead work.
Agatha listened intently, and a growing resolution shone in her eyes. "Would Mrs. Stoddard come, if it were not for what you said about me?" she asked. "The Lord only knows, but I think she would," replied the poor, harassed doctor. "She's always been a regular Dorcas in this neighborhood." "Dorcas!" cried Agatha, her anger again flaring up. "I should say Sapphira."
Louis began to grow, his brothers and sisters, and their descendants, concluded to look up the property. After much and fruitless litigation, they at last retained Mr. Stoddard, of Dayton, who in turn employed Mr. Ewing, and these, after many years of labor, established the title, and in the summer of 1851 they were put in possession by the United States marshal.
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