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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Of course of course," he cried. "I didn't mean to say anything disagreeable. And so you have seen Mr. Clavering?" "Just seen him; no more." "And are you going to assist Mr. Harwell in finishing Mr. Leaven worth's book?" "How did you learn that?" He only smiled. "Yes," said I; "Miss Leavenworth has requested me to do her that little favor."
He told one of his women to lead the way, and I followed. We toiled up many flights of wearisome steps until we arrived at the above-mentioned ateliers. These communicated with another apartment, of which Worth's woman had the key. We passed through this room and came out to a staircase, where the demoiselle said, "You have only to go down here."
It was Horace P. Blanton who arranged for a public indignation meeting in the Worth opera house the afternoon of Jefferson Worth's expected return. When the day arrived Kingston entertained the largest crowd that had ever gathered within the boundaries of the town.
"Yes; it is Ishmael Worth!" answered Hamlin, the bookseller, who was a newcomer upon the scene. "Ishmael Worth? Hannah Worth's nephew?" "Yes; that is who he is." "Then stand out of the way, friends; I will take charge of the lad," said the gray-haired stranger, lifting the form of the boy in his arms, and gazing into his face.
This was not what had brought him to the office. He finished with the abrupt question, "Were you at Santa Ysobel last night?" "Hold on, Cummings," I broke in. "What you got? Let us " I was shut off there by Worth's, "It's Sunday afternoon. I want that money to-morrow morning. You've not come through? You've not dug up what I sent you after?" I could see that the lawyer was absolutely nonplussed.
It was not strange that Willard Holmes had never heard the story of how Barbara was found in the desert. In the new country, where most of the engineer's life in the West had been spent, comparatively few beyond Worth's most intimate associates knew that she was the banker's daughter only by adoption.
As he grasped the situation and the methods Greenfield had employed to injure Worth's interests, the engineer's eyes flashed. "Mr. Worth," he cried, "that is the dirtiest trick I ever saw turned." "It's business, Mr. Holmes. Mr. Greenfield is merely using his advantage, that's all."
I had no choice in the matter; the affair was prearranged by our parents, after the continental fashion." "I'm sorry I spoke like that," O'Mally said contritely. "No apologies, if you please. It is only just that you should know something of the case, considering the manner in which I imposed upon you all." "I'll punch Worth's head when I run across him." O'Mally clenched his fists.
When I couldn't get him" a jerk of the head indicated that the pronoun stood for Worth "at the Palace, found he'd been out all day and left no word at the desk when he expected to be in, I took my telegram to Knapp, and then to Whipple. They were flabbergasted." "The bank crowd," I said. "Now why did you run to them? On account of Worth's engagement with them to-morrow morning?
Jefferson Worth's relation to The King's Basin Land and Irrigation Company was always a much discussed question among the pioneers.
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