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Once more he slipped off into the forests and took unto himself additional sections of virgin timber at inconceivably low prices. Other men made much of the wheat-field and the town-lot, but Joseph Hooper saw fortune in the forests. Again and again he increased his timber land holdings.
His farm, of course, would be managed under his superintendence unless Oklahoma City should be generous enough to spread out and surround it, and lap it up, town-lot after town-lot, till not a red clod was left.... And if a girl like Lahoma for surely she had not changed! if she, little Lahoma.... And the longing grew on him to see Annabel Sellimer and Lahoma together, that he might study the girl he had once loved with the girl he might love tomorrow.
"I had landed, of course; and, after putting up at the hotel, proceeded in search of my `property. I found my town-lot in a marsh, which took me over the ankles in mud. As for my farm, I was compelled to get a boat to visit it; and after sailing all over it without being able to touch bottom, I returned to the hotel, heartless and disgusted.
"A canny old boy," he had announced with his most engaging smile, quite free from rancour or resentment. Challis was well acquainted with himself. And so the acres were strapped together snugly and firmly, without so much as a town-lot protruding. So impressed was Challis by the farsightedness of his father-in-law that he forthwith sat him down and made a will of his own.
It contained inhabitants of as undeleterious an self-satisfied a class of peasantry as ever clustered around a Maypole. Bill and me had a joint capital of about six hundred dollars, and we needed just two thousand dollars more to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in Western Illinois with. We talked it over on the front steps of the hotel.
See all those teams? Maybe I ought to have taken up old Hackaberry on that town-lot proposition, after all." "Fiddlesticks!" she retorted, with fine scorn of Hazleton's real-estate possibilities. "You could buy the whole town with this." She touched the sack with her toe. "Not quite," Bill returned placidly. "I wouldn't, anyway. We'll get a better run for our money than that.
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