Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-12-08

ma ething that angered me.
W. q, He doesn't mean to an
" an y S-but he does, some
times" n,,+h bis bo,ds
He covered his facl ssst him and he |
Presently the trembling
90 brisp.
Now" he said, with a show@. T. =
ness, II am better again. Whae voT
George2 If it is business, have 70
come to propose anythingI You han
got your legal notice, believe? Yen
Then you know the conditions Of theH
law, which didn't make. 1t is the same
for me as for you. Pay me any other
way and keep your land. If no other
way, l shall have your land. Is that
sense, or is it not?'
lizard common sense" said George.
$50 it is" said David. "It's always
hard common sense when he takes an
other mans land"
81 am sorry for you, George" the old
man went on; yet his face expressed
certain satisfaction. Nobody will blame
you, I'm sure; or me either, for that
matter; and when your poor father Dor
rowed the money the land was worth
three times as much as it is now, so
that nobody will blame him. don't ex-
pect ever to get the value of my money
back So we're all losers by the hard
times. l shall want a tenant, George,
the old man went on, land we will not
quarrel about the rent. Easy terms you
shall have, and when you've got your
head well above water again, we will
consider about you and Mary. Don't
think l shall be hard upon you"
mo" said George; II am going to
emigrate."
40 foreign lands, GeOrge2 Has it
come to that7 Dear-dear!"
81 am going to Tasmania"
'aTut, tut; this is very bad. To for
eign landsl David went to foreign lands,
and see how he came home. George,
you had better stay at Sidcote and be my
tenant"
mo" George said, shortly. "Well, the
long and the short of it Is that we are
here to-day-Mary and Ito ask your
consent to our marriage"
mo, George; l shall not consent.
What let Mary marry man who has
lost his own land and is going to foreign
landsP Certainly not! not on any &C
countp'
"When your sister left Mary all her
fortune"
at was mine by rights. made it
for her"
She put in the clause about your
consent to protect her. You know, as
we'll as l, that she herself would nevef
object to me for Mary's husband"
"She began with a thousand pounds
BY my advice she made it into six thou
sand pounds. Do you mean to tell me
that am to have no voice In the dis
posal Of all this money!"
"This kind of talk will not help any
body. Well, have had my answer,
suppose. Mary, dear, it is for you t.
choose between your uncle and me-"
II have chosen, George, you know
WELL Uncle, you will have to give tina
money to David or to me. Here is Da
vid, and here am l. To which of u
will you give it?'
Suppose, Mary" David interposed-
suppose there was a secret arrange
ment-I don't say there is, but suppos
there was-between your uncle and me
: Suppose that was to sell my ehanc
for so much down, and he was to keel
the rest"
Uncle! you would not-you could no
| TO SUCH u lulIS mdI5 CIiou'
i Suppose, / say"-David went on
that arrangement was to exist. Their
e you see, George and Mary"-David pu
the thing in his slow and elaborate mar
/ ner, so as to bring out the full meanin
) of the transactiOn-''yOu see that if 20
don't marry without his consent, he wi
d lose the money he's got to pay me; but
h he does not pay me that money befor
Ii you get married, he will have to pay N
d the whole afterward. Therefore he ma
# urally wants you to marry without h
IS consent. You are going to play his gam
N for him."
D. At this unexpected blow Daniel We
J. covered with confusion. When two pc
q pie make such a treaty, secrecy Is IL
r very essence Of 1t; and for one Of the pa
IS ties concerned to blurt out the truth
rs In a sense a breach Of contract. TT
old man actually turned red-at sevent
d. he had still the grace to husband huI
ID his head, but he could not speak.
It, "Oh! you have speculated on our ma
Or ryinR withouty our CONSENT You ha'
Or actually bought David's chance, and no
}? you want US to marry, so that you m,
~ keep the whole to yourself!'
''Not the whole" said David. "Wh
will be left after he has bought me out
n MARY" her uncle replied, evading t
d. question, "why do you want to get ms
OF ried yeti Stay with me. Let Geor
ed stay at Sidcote and be my tenant. A
81 1 will consider will consider. Besid
ur think, Mary; l am an old man now, a
n, you win have all my money and all I
x land when l die"
1T Have you bought up David 50 ii
you may keep the money as long as y
IS, please, by always refusing your conseI
II Answer that" said George, hotly.
to at shall answer nothing" Daniel
me piled angrily- nothhg-nothing! 7
have come here and asked for my C