The Press., 1891-09-10
CHAPTER ILL

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 | ap0 the trGspps t1s tltts r,Gqt of tltc country eGrry letters Of tsltfOdttctton like t'acse5'' Frau Kropff quivered with. excite ment, joy and the triumph of a great speculative coup, for which she took all credit to herself. Her mind did not really entertain realizing sense of a sum of money beyond about fifty dollars-an amount for which she had standard of approximation in tho ordinary value of a cow. She talked of thousands as she heard others talked, but comprehended them no more than x metaphysicians grasp the conceptions of unbounded space and lmitless time, about which | they prate so glibly. Even the tangible pile of forty five dollar notes dazed her with sense of vastness that seemed to include ample provision for Jacobs happy future. Farmer Kropf listened to her in grim silence until about dusk, l when. feeling that she nude him tired, he strolled out to the gate and stood there meditating. Reuben Chase, bright eyed. quick witted fifteen year-old lad. son of 8 lielgh- bor. came trudging along the lane whistling merrily and swinging 8 small string of trout. .'You vas not having good luck init the feeshes today, Reuben" remarked
 the farmer, good naturedly accosting the sboy.
 'sNo! We'll, maybe not; but 1t was l the best days fishing ever did in my l life, MT: Kropff, replied Reuben laugh
 sHew vas thatg "Why, got five doilaFs from q couple Of city swells for the first string Icaught Il-abont twice as many as I've got herel'' l x "Zog"
 ''They were the chaps that stopped f5here. ! saw them come in for dinner land drive away afterward.e ''Chinini graciousl They give you lS five dollars for them feeshes unt then I give them feeshes to mel That vas most eggstraordinary! s'pose they think I laugh at them ven they don't got some feeshes."
 ..They didn't seem to care much about fishing when saw them."'
 ..Noi The tall one was tired, guess. l He is sickly." .:Whatl the lean one? Why, he was doing more work than the other" 1 'sDoing more york! Vat do you mean?' "Why, they were both down in the
 bed of the creek, shoveling up sand into
 iron pans, and then filling them with
 Wnter and shaking them around and
 flirting the water out again in a funny way. I watched them good while" HDopRerwetterr In vain the worthy 9ld Plan puzzled 1 himself to find an explanation of the strange things told him by the boy, No hypothesis could he discover compatible l with a belief ip the sanity of the New Workers, and # they were crazy wonld 1 be have any moral right to retain those two hundred dollars7 Certainly not. In l his perpleNty he had the weakness to take his wife into consultation, a step that he bitterly regretted before the night was oyer. l About midnight she bored among his ribs with one of her sharp elbows until. ! to his thorough disgust, he was fully awakened, and then, in tone of tri- umphant confidence, addressed him: l HHeinrich! see it all nowt' When, my dear, Iyish you would gon- template it in admiring silence, vatever it is, unt let ms shleep." he protested.
 "I have been thinking, Heinrich l ''I am very sorry to hear it. Always mischief gomes ven you do that" ! .:yill you be still unt listen to mel? l !"f Yehld not if I gould hellnp it." sHeinrich, an 2 aaaFry M for you that you been so dumm."
 ssSurely you are not half 50 sorry for ne that am dumm as am sorry that 1 yoH aFe not dumb"
 aAcht ya. You want te shleep there like fat pig vile ve all go by the boor- house, but you shall not. You aast liz l ten to me-
 "I am aggnstomed to that. Yell, go ahead. Get it off your mind, mt then maybe you will go to shleep again."
 ''I know vat for them fellers vas dig gin the greek" l s,Zo,'
 .They vas lookip'' for mineral yaters like the springs in Germany"
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 They know kind of sand vat they look for. unt ven they find it they dig down mt got the yater." | s.Zor'
 "That they do buy the farm shows they have finded that sand" .stZoP'
 'sUnt the first thing you will know they will build q big hotel here, unt pay some doctors to tell the people that the waters cures everythings. unt sell that yater in bottles, unt make more money as you never saw; unt you are q fool if you sell that farm for ten thouGnd dol lars"
 1 ...sZof'
 aYes, that Is 20; unt you must make tham pay ten times so mYch.ss
 That wonld bevor hHllpldFed hHllp thosHsard 2 ldollars." money
 sAre you doneY' if am vat will yoq sayP"
 HGo to shleep." HHeinrichl Gan yaH think of that boor poy Jacob shtanding outside the fence around that big hotel we're the rich gentlemens unt ladies' are, mt sayin' init broken heart, .Mein water sold all that for 6 boor leedle ten thousand dol