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A mother is a great thing when she ain't in drink." "I wish I could have Mr. Wisner with me when I get to Southport," I said. "He'd help me. He is such a Christian man!" "Wal," said Bill, "I ain't as sure about him as I am about mothers. He minds me of a skipper I served under once; and he starved us, and let the second officer haze us till we deserted and lost our wages.
"I'd of married him anyway. It's just like he says he never told me about it until just a little while ago. I thought he was some sort of a distant relative of the Wisner family. If you stop to think you can see how all these things happened easy enough.
It was getting spring by now sort of raw weather once in a while; but the grass was getting green, and some of Bonnie Bell's flowers she had planted was beginning to show up through the ground, and once in a while she would go out, in old clothes mostly, with maybe a cap and a apern and fuss round with her flowers. She wouldn't never look across at the Wisner house.
Carroll did not reply directly to this. "What shall you do?" "Get out, if I can. I'm ordered to Curacao. Wisner left word for me." "Come down the mountain with me." "Impossible. There are matters here to be attended to." "Then when will you come down?" "Before you sail. I must be sure that you get off." "You'll come to the yacht, then?" "No." "I think you should.
"Wisner didn't want us to buy this place; he wanted to buy it hisself, but buy it cheap. It was him or me, and I got it. Still, when I want to be neighbor to a man I'm going to be a neighbor whether he likes it or not." "You reckon they'll like us?" says I. "They got to," says he.
Wisner looked at us sharply as we came in, and shook hands first with Bill and then with me. "Glad to see you again," said he heartily. "Glad to see you again! I want to tell you some more about Wisconsin. I haven't told you the half of its advantages." I saw that he thought we had been there before, and was about to correct his mistake, when Bill told him that that's what we had come for.
But now, a alderman might be easier, if you went at it right. Anyways, the way they have acted, I feel like I'd copper any game Old Man Wisner was playing. I kind of feel in my bones that him and me is going to lock horns, Curly. I don't like the way he acts; and, I tell you, when I want a neighbor to be friendly with me he's got to be friendly sometime."
For the first time in my life I didn't know whether to back or copper my own bet. The old man staved it off a little while, anyway. He goes over to the table and begins to fill his pipe. "Well, Curly," says he, "I couldn't foreclose on the Circle Arrow if I wanted to now they paid their deferred payment for this year. Old Wisner, he got backing from three banks and he come through.
"It shore is, Colonel," says I; "and there ain't no better times than them." The old man he gets into the buckboard on one side and he taken the two twins on his knees. On the seat back of him was Pa and Ma Wisner me riding with Old Man Wright, in the middle.
I didn't know they cared so much here. But my people were first settlers and builders, and always in the army and navy." "How perfectly dear!" says Katherine. "We'll start you in as a Daughter; that'll make Old Lady Wisner mad, but she can't help it mommah will take care of that. Then we'll make you a Dame next that'll help things along.
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