Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-10-14
CHAPTER VI

Mary said nothing. Her cousin David
was doubtless a great fool, but people
said unkind things about her uncle's
conduct toward him.
IF l had not secured his property.
some one else would. 1t is still in the
family, which ought to be a great com
tort to him, wherever he has gone.
george Sidcote is another-well, he isn't
exactly fQGl like David; but he doesn't
get on-he doesn't get on. 1 fear very
much"
Uncle, spare him!r
because he wants to marry you,
chlldF is that a reason for interfering
with the course of business? When the
pear Is ripe, it will drop!--if not into my
mouth, into some other mans. Business
before love, Mary"
II l could give my fortune, he would
be out of his difficulties"
Your fortune, Mary? Where is it7
"hat fortune? You have none unless
you marry with my consent. Your for
tuner Why, it depends on me whether
you ever get it. l don't say that l shall
never consent. Show me the right man
not spendthrift, Mary"
George is no spendthrift"
NoF man IN debt"
If George is in debt, it is not his
fault"
substantial man, and one who
knows the worth of money; bring that
man along, and we will see. If not
We'll Mary, l am getting on for seventy,
and can't last forever, and PERTAINS
perhaps, l say shall leave Won INV
money when | die. You can whit tiil
theh' SIX thousand pounds is a tremen-
uouS Dig lump to part with, when n man
Is not oohged to part with it. And I am
not opilged to give my consent. No. no.
ana aIter I've lost three thousand-thraA
thousand! Besides, your comfortable
mere "hat do you want to marry for?
| nat the good of marrying? Better
stay at nome and save money. | give Won
your board and your lodging, Mary. while
| you are here, for nothing; and your cloth.
ihs, too-yes, your clothing" He smoke
us II many young people had to go with
out. 81 "''H
Yes, l know" She laughed tbinl,,,
how much her uncle had giyen bnr fas
dress in the last year or two. "Wau ~,
cle' but if l do marry witbont vo,,r
consent You will have to give the n,o,,o,
to my cousin David"
Yes yes; of course. What's +bo no.,
OF telling me that? But David is ID
no doubt, by this time, and tban th|
money must remain with me Of ca,',o
but you won't do that. Mary. vo,,,n
never be so wicked as to do tbot D.
sides, if you did. David's accounts LEI
me have never been made nm ard =
don't doubt that when we come 70 Ill.
into them it will be found thar bo 80
: me great deal still. l was varr so o0'
: toolishly soft-with David"
| Mary made no reply. Her uncla boa
: been. indeed, soft with David: 90 sof,
that he had sold him up and turned hin,
out, and now possessed his land.
| Mr.. Leighan sighed heavily. no douh,
: over his foolish sofness, and becam,
/ silent 1t was not often that he talkes
I so much with his niece.
Six years before this, about half-pas
D nine one evening in the autumn of IN,
D year 1880, George Sidcote walking hone
{ found Mr. Leighan lying in the middle O
] the road on Heytree Down. His Don
e was grazing quietly beside him, and b
. was lying on his back senseless. with a
2 ugly wound in his head, the scar @
t | which would never leave him lie Ia
1 fallen apparently, from his pony. y
= susicion of violence or robbery was er
tertained; first. because no one eve
+ heard OF violence at Challacombe, an
: secondly because he had not apparent.
2 been robbed. So, at least, il seemed (
/, those who carried aim home. for his poet
= cts were full of money. and his waite
y and chain had not been taAen.
j. For three days and three nights DAM,
3 Leighan lay speechless and senseless, an
h bat for a faint pulse he seemed dea
i When he recovered consciousness, IA
k first qustions he asked were concernin
II a certain tin box containing papers whic
/ he declared was hanging in a bag frol
u his neck. Now Of that tin box no Oh
n knew anything. Presently, when /
- counted his money, he swore that he wi
I'd twenty pounds short