Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-10-18


that $4,000 are required, and / tell you
frankly that as times are do not for one
moment believe the place 70 be worth that
amount II is all very well for your father
to talk about land recovering itself, but at
present, at any rate, nobody can see tho
faintest chance OF anything Of the sort The
probabilities are. on the contrary, that as the
American competition increases land will
gradually sink TO something like q prairie
value"
"Then how can the money be got II nobody
will advance iff'
II did not say that nobody would advance
IL, | said that nobody would advance il "a an
investment A friend might advance IT,"
And where is such friend 10 be foundl
lie would he a very disnterested friend who
would advance u.oO0n
Nobody in this world is quite disinter
ested, Miss de la Moile, or, at any rate. very
few are What would you give To sach
frien6r
II would give anything and everything
over which ! have control in the world TO
save my father from seeing Honham sold
over his head, she answered simply.
Edward Cossey laughed a little THAT is
large order he said. Miss de la Molle,
am disposed 20 try and lind tho money TO
Z I ~ UP Nutrf uibi AEAktA 1 GANt Ebh W.
aud shall have to borrow u, and, what Is
more, shall have to keep the fact that
have borrowed II "A secret from ms father"
1T Is very good Of you, said Ida, family.
II don't know what TO sty.r
For n moment lac made no reply, and look.
ing at him. Ida saw that his hand was trem.
bling.
Miss de la Molle," he said, there n an.
other matter OF which Wish u speak 10 you
Men are sometimes put into strange positions
partly through their own fault, rarity by
force Of circumstances, aud when In those
positions are forced down paths tina. they
would not follow Surprising, Miss dc la
Molio, that mine were some such position
and supposing that owing to that position. |
could hot say 10 you words which should
wish 10 say"
Ida began to understand now. and once
more turned aside
"Snpposing, however, that at some future
time the difficulties " that position OF which
; | have spoken were 20 fade away aud ! were
then To sIeak those WORKS. can you, suppos-
ing all this. tell ms how they would be re
: cpivedr'
ida PAUSED and thought She was strong
, natugs-i and clear headed woman. and she
, fully understood the position On her an
D we're forthcrL,,ug. aud, therefore, whether
. OF no Honham castle would pass from her
father and her race.
Il said Just now, Mr. Cossey," she an
swered, colby ''that ! would give anything
: and everything over which have control ia
a the world 10 save my father from seeing
Honham sold over his head do not wisi
70 retract these words, ard ! think that IL
' them you will find an answer 10 your ques
. ton"
. lilo colorcd "You put the matter in
9 very business like way" lie said.
!; lit is best Put -, Mr. Cossey,r she an
o swered, with "a faint shade OF bitterness IN hel
tone, iii preserves mo from ieeIng under at
/ ohhgatt VIII sou $50 my father abou
Q thsr mort gase~r
a good by 10 YOU" and he took her hand, an,
with somo little hesitation kissed IT, Sh
|. made no resistance and showed no emotion
10 YES. size answered, I'VE have been her
y some time Mrs Quest will wonder what ha
become " yuu"
n Ii was random arrow, but IL went straigh
10 hame AMI for the thIrd time that da'
II 4 ward CusSey reddcued 10 the roots ~ III
10 hair Without Answering IA word Le howe,
.nd went
r When Ida saw il. she Was sorry she Ia.
10 uade the remark, for size had no " lsh To ap
0, ta.lr to Mr C,~sry lthe conquest OF whom
z gave her neither pride nor pieasurcl IN tn
he sht Of a sptefui or worse still, OF jealou
A. t#amnn Sine had Indatd heard some tai
IA about INN and Mrs Quest, but not trsinr o
n n scandal loving disposition It had not u
, terestsi her and She bad almost forgotts,
: 1t Now however she saw that there wa
= something IN II
!. .,s;,, TINT i tho dfffirult rositinn Of while.