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"'Ow much his that?" asked the ghost. "One hundred lire?" returned Terwilliger, repeating the sum to gain time to think. He was himself surprised at the cheapness of the duchy, and he was afraid that if the ghost knew its real value she would decline to take it. "One hundred lire? Why, that's about 750,000 dollars 150,000 pounds. They charge high for their titles," he added, blushing slightly.
"Not even when her father considers the commercial value of such an alliance for his daughter?" retorted the earl, shaking his finger in Terwilliger's face. Terwilliger turned pale. The picture painted by the earl was terribly alluring. He hesitated. He was lost. "Mugley," he whispered, hoarsely "Mugley, I have wronged you. I thought you were a fortune-hunter. I see you love her.
This led to road-runners. This suggested rattlesnakes. They started Windy Bill. "Speakin' of snakes," said Windy, "I mind when they catched the great-granddaddy of all the bullsnakes up at Lead in the Black Hills. I was only a kid then. This wasn't no such tur'ble long a snake, but he was more'n a foot thick. Looked just like a sahuaro stalk. Man name of Terwilliger Smith catched it.
Since I read the story of the girl who started in life as an innkeeper's daughter and died a duchess, by Elizabeth Harley Hicks, of Salem, and realized how one might be lowly born and yet rise to lofty heights, it has been my dearest wish that my girls might become noblewomen, and at times, Judson, I have even hoped that you might yet become a duke." "Great Scott!" ejaculated Terwilliger.
"My words hexackly when the baron's privit secretary told me two dys laiter as 'ow the baron's heggs wasn't done proper," said the ghost. "H'I says to 'im, says I: 'The baron's heggs be blowed. "I give it up," replied Terwilliger. "What?" "'E said as 'ow h'I 'ad the big 'ead." "How disgusting of him!" murmured Terwilliger. "That was simply low." "Hand then 'e accuged me of bein' himpudent." "No!"
I recall vaguely being lost in the snow and I have often heard Dad speak of Hillery's kindness and care; he used to say that the trapper had saved both our lives. A number of people in Limasito have heard the story from his own lips, Jim Baggott and Henry Bailey and Rufe Terwilliger but Rufe is dead now, he was killed in El Negrito's raid "
Terwilliger, as her husband crawled back into bed. "Burglars?" "Not a burglar," returned Hankinson. "Nothing but a ghost a poor, old, female ghost." "Ghost!" cried Mrs. Terwilliger, trembling with fright. "In this house?" "Yes, my dear. Haunted us by mistake, that's all. Belongs to another place entirely; got a little befogged, and came here without intending to, that's all.
At the end of seven days Terwilliger was seemingly as far from the solution of his problem as ever, and at the grand fete given by himself and wife on the afternoon of the seventh day of his trial, to the Earl of Mugley, the one in whom Ariadne was interested, he seemed almost rude to his guests, which the latter overlooked, taking it for the American way of entertaining.
"'E did, hindeed; hand then 'e discharged me without me waiges. Hof course h'I wouldn't sty after that; but h'I says to 'im, 'Hif I don't get me py, h'I'll 'aunt this place from the dy of me death; hand 'e says, ''Aunt awy." "And you have kept your word." "H'I 'ave that! H'I've made it 'ot for 'em, too." "Well, now, look here," said Terwilliger, "I'll tell you what I'll do.
It would have been announced at once, only the earl felt that he should break the news himself first to his mother, the countess an operation which he dreaded, and for which he believed some eight or ten weeks of time were necessary. "What is the matter, Judson?" Mrs. Terwilliger asked finally, her husband was growing so careworn of aspect. "Nothing, my dear, nothing."
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