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Wickersham and his friends awakened to the fact that Squire Rawson was not the simple cattle-dealer he appeared to be, but was a man to be reckoned with. He not only held a large amount of the most valuable property in the Gap, but had as yet proved wholly intractable about disposing of it. Accordingly, the agent of Wickersham & Company, Mr. Halbrook, came down to Gumbolt to look into the matter.
There was a flurry among the men there, for they all knew that something unusual had occurred; and there was that about the massive, grim old man, with his fierce eyes, that demanded attention. On learning that Wickersham was not in, he said he would wait for him and started to take a seat. There was a whispered colloquy between two clerks, and then one of them told him that Mr.
At length the girl yielded, and, after a few words with the host of the Windsor, she stepped forward and began to dance. She danced in such a way that the applause made the brass chandeliers ring. Even Wickersham, though he hated her, could not but admire her.
Hers was the sad face when they entered the clearing at Thirty-Mile and a hoarse shout saluted her return. In her father's embrace she clung and wondered that she did not cry. And two pages had turned for her that day, for she sent Wickersham back his ring the same night the private car rolled down to Morrison.
She had fancied the neckties he should wear, and the pins that should be stuck in them. He must be brave, of course, a beautiful dancer, a fine tennis-player. She had once thought that black-eyed, handsome young Ferdy Wickersham was as near her ideal as any one else she knew. He led germans divinely.
Lancaster's a few days after his interview with Keith and the day following the interview with Wickersham. Mr. Rimmon called at Mrs. Lancaster's quite frequently of late. They had known each other a long time, almost ever since Mr. Rimmon had been an acolyte at his uncle Dr.
A little later, Keith went over to where Mrs. Lancaster stood. Several men were about her, and just after Keith Joined her, another man walked up, if any movement so lazy and sauntering could be termed walking. "I have been wondering why I did not see you," he drawled as he came up. Keith recognized the voice of Ferdy Wickersham. He turned and faced him; but if Mr.
That evening so long ago when he had come on her and Wickersham in the old squire's orchard came back to him, and the stalwart old countryman, with his plain ways, his stout pride, his straight ideas, stood before him. He knew his pride in the girl; how close she was to his heart; and what a deadly blow it would be to him should anything befall her.
"You don't mean to infer, do you, Miriam," she reproved, "that Archie Wickersham or my other friends, or or Garry, aren't men?" "Males!" snapped the other girl. "Just males! But" and she seemed to be arguing with herself "but Garry might have been, though he might have been!" Barbara lay awake a long time, pondering. "It's odd," she murmured once, "but we did seem so so congenial.
Thus, though Ferdy Wickersham flattered her vanity by his delicate attentions, his patient waiting, he found himself, after long service, in danger of being balked by her pride. His apparent faithfulness had enlisted her interest; but she held him at a distance with a resolution which he would not have given her credit for.
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