The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-10-25

for me - for you. Pay me any other
way and keep your land. II no other
way. shall have your land. II that
sense. or ID It not 7"
Hard common sense" said George.
80 1t IT," said David. Its always
hard common sense when he takes an
other mans land"
Il am sorry for you, George, the old
certain satisfaction. Nobody will blame
matter; and when your poor father Dor
rowed the money the land was worth
three times as much a. 1t 10 now, SO
that nobody will blame him. I don't ex-
pect ever to get the value Of my money
back. 30 we're all losers BY the hard
times. shall want tenant, George"
the old man went on, land We will mot
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 shall be hard upon you"
mo-" said George; II. am going to
emisrate."
ITO foreign lands, George1 Has It
come to that7 Dear-dearw
II am going to Tasmania."
tut, tut; this IL very bad. To for
eign lands! David went to foreign lands,
and see how he came home. George.
you had better stay at Sidcote and be my
tenant"
NO." George said, shortly. "Well, the
long and the short Of It IL that We are
here to-day-Mary and Ito ask your
consent to our marriaRe."
NO. George; shall not consent.
What! let Mary marry a man who has
lost his own land and 10 going to foreign
lands? Certainly not! not on any &C
COUNT
when your sister left Mary all her
fortune"
1T was mine by rights. made 1t
for her"
She put In the clause about you,
consent to protect her. You know, as
well 40 l, that she herself would never
object to me for Mary's husband"
'She began with q thousand pounds.
by my advice she made 1t into six thou
sand pounds. DO you mean to tell mo
that l 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, I
suppose. Mary, dear, 1t 10 for you to
choose between your uncle and me-"
Il have chosen, George, you know
well. Uncle, you will have to give that
money to David or to me. Here is Da.
vid. and here am I. To which Of us
will you give tip
Suppose. Mary" David interposed-
suppose there was q secret arrange
ment-I don't say there IL, but suppose
there was-between your uncle and me.
Suppose that was to sell my chance
for so much down, and he was to keep
the rest"
Uncle! you would not-you could not
do such 4 thing!" Mary cried.
Suppose, I say"-David went on
that arrangement was to exist. Then,
you see. George and Mary"-David nut
the thing In his slow and elaborate man.
ner. 80 ~ to bring out the full meaning
OF the ransaction-'you see that IL you
don't marry without his consent, he will
lose the money he's got to pay me; but II
no does not pay me that money before
you get married, he will have to Day me
the whole afterward. Therefore he nat
urally wants you to marry without his
consent You are going to play his game
for him."
At this unexpected blow Daniel was
covered with confusion. When two peo-
pie make such q treaty, secrecy IL the
very essence Of it, and for one Of the par
ties concerned to blurt out the truth ID,
in 4 sense, a breach of contract, The
old man actually turned red-at seventy
he had still the grace to blush--and hung
l. Il. A.ut L.