News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-09-02
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would simply fall over each other to
send out cars to be loaded for ship
ment at competitive rates BY George,
| it was a corker. | found out the next
| day that she was right, and that doing
away with the rolling stock. shops and
so forth would cut down the cost of
your road more than half
That's fact" exclaimed Alan,
'and had not thought of it,"
She's stronger woman than | ever
imagined" said Miller. by George.
if she were not on your string, I'd
make dead set for her. a wife like
that would make man complete
She's in love with you or thinks she
is, but she hasn't that will-o'-th e-wisp
glamour. She's business from her toes
to her finger tips BY George, l be-
iieve she makes a business of her love
it by a sum in algebra. But to get
back to the railroad, for I've got lots
to tell you. What do you reckon |
found that day? You couldn't guess in
thousand years. 1t was a Frelilni.
nary survey of railroad once planned
from barley right through your IA
theirs purchase to Morganton, \. G.
1t was made just before the war by
old ColonelWade, who, in his day, was
one of the most noted surveyors in the
state. This end of the line was all |
cared about, and that was almost as
/ level as a floor along the river and
down the valley into the north end of
town. It's bonanza, my boy! Why
that big bottle of timber land has new
er been busted is a wonder to me. If
as many Yankees had been nosing
about here as there have been in other
southern sections, it would have been
snatched up long ago"
I'm awfully glad to hear you say all
this" said Alan, 'for it is the only
way out of our difficulty, and some
thing has to be done"
at may cost you a few years of the
hardest work you ever bucked down
to-" said Miller, land some sleepless
nights, but | really believe you have
fallen on to a better thing than any
CNtl olI lNh. COulu lluhc IL NlllL
I've already done something that will
astonish YOU | happen to know slight
~ Tillman Wilson, the president of the
Southern Land and Timber company.
Their offices are in Atlanta. | knew
he was my man to tackle, so when l
got to Atlanta yesterday | ran upon
him just as if it were accidental |
L.. \, ~.
Capitol City club; you know I'm a
nonresident member You see, l knew
if l put myself in the light of a man
with something to sell, he'd hurry
away from me, but l didn't. AS
pretext l told him l had some clients
up here who wanted to raise a consid-
cradle amount of money and that the
security offered was fine timber land
You see that caught him; he was on
his own ground. l saw that he was
interested, and l doomed the property
to the skies.
"The more l talked the more he was
interested till it was bubbling out all
over him. He's New Highlander, who
thinks a country lawyer without a
Harvard education belongs to an effete
civilization, and | let him think he
was pumping me. l even left off my
g's and ignored my RS. l let him think
he had struck the softest thing of his
life. Pretty soon he begun to want to
know if you cared to sell, but skirted
that indifferently, as if | had no inter-
est whatever in it. told him your IA
Their had bought the property to hold
for an advance; that he had spent
years of his life picking out the rich
est timber spots and buying them up
Then he came right out, as | hoped he
would, and asked me the amount you
wanted to borrow on the property. 1
had to speak quick, and, remembering
that you had said the old gentleman
had put in about $4,000 first and last
| put the amount at $4,000. 1 was
taking a liberty, but l can easily get
you out of it if you decide not to do it."
twenty-five thousand! On that
land?" Alan cried. at would tickle
my father to death to sell it for that"
81 can arrange the papers so that you
are not liable for any security outside
of the land, and it would practically
amount to a sale If you wished it, but
you don't wish it. 1 finally told him
that l had an idea that you would sell
out for an even hundred thousand"
(To be continued.l
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