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The "Rads" had given a barbecue down in Blackland, just two days before the visit of Jeff-Jack and those others to Widewood and what did she reckon! Cornelius Leggett had there made a speech, declaring that he was at the bottom of a patriotic project to open a free white school in Suez, and "bu'st Rosemont wide open." "Judge March," said the wife, affectionately, "I wonder why Mr.
The middle distance was dotted with half a dozen "follies" "for sale," each with its small bunch of workmen's cottages, some empty, some full, alas! and all treeless and grassless under the blazing sun. Far beyond to the right, shading away from green to blue, rose the hills of Widewood lost Widewood! hiding other "tied-up capital" and more stranded labor.
The Captain moved as if to draw his revolver, but brought forth instead a large yellow apple. Then did John confess who he was and why there. The Captain did as much on his part. He had risen with the morning star to do an errand beyond Widewood, and was now getting back to Suez.
Weed asked how many shares offered to voluntary subscribers on the ten-dollar instalment plan had been taken, and Garnet replied, "All. Those, together with the shares assigned me in exchange for the mortgages I hold on Widewood and propose to surrender, the forty for which Mr. Leggett pays five hundred dollars, and the two hundred retained by Mr.
But when Doctor Grace said, fervently, "That sounds good!" all admitted the excellence of Parson Tombs's suggestion. About three in the afternoon on the last day of the year John March was in the saddle loping down from Widewood. He was thinking of one of the most serious obstacles to the furtherance of his enterprise: the stubborn hostility of the Sandstone County mountaineers.
"Most assuredly!" laughed the young men. "You know, Mr. March, pop-a's so proud of the Widewood tract that I believe, positively, he's jealous of anyone's seeing it without him for a guide. You'd think it held the key of all our fates." "Which is triply absurd!" "Superlatively!" drawled Barbara, and laughing was easy.
"Yes," responded John once more, thinking that if she was going to treat the thing as a joke he had better do the same, "immigrants for Widewood have got to be got, and they're not to be got on this side the big water." "Why, Mr. March!" her laugh grew "How long shall you stay?" "Stay! Gracious knows! I must just stay till I get them! as your father says." "Why, Mr. March!
Pettigrew speed like a phantom across the moonlight and vanish in the woods. Before she could leave the window a sound of galloping hoofs told at last the coming of John March. Cornelius had barely time to scamper out into the night when the master of Widewood came trotting around the corner of the house and thence off to the stable, never to know of the farce which made Mr.
"Oh, let him shoot a Yahoo or two if he must, but I think you ought to tell him he's committing a criminal folly in asking that young Yankee, Mr. Fair, to stop with him at Widewood when he comes here next week!" "Why, Brother Garnet! Why, supposin' that young stranger should get shot!" "Yes, or if he should no more than see March shot or shot at! What an impression he'd carry back North with him!
When John came into possession, Garnet, his party being once more in power, had cunningly arranged for Rosemont not to be taxed on its improvements, but only on its land, and March discovered nothing. In the land boom Garnet kept the odd sixty acres, generally supposed to be a part of Widewood, out of sight, and induced John to deed it to his mother.
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