The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-31

know what to do with yourself"
"a long while,' / said gTavely.
] Glow long?' asked Lolo, quickly
under her breath.
"Oh, many, many years, perhaps"
replied.
She did not attempt to conceal her
satisfaction.
gave the girl wiry little horse;
she sat on it for the first time with the
grace and mastery of trained horse
woman.
Every morning rode the plantation;
/ sometimes business took me to the city
she never failed to be by my side
on these occasions. But when / had
work to do, it was another thing. She
hated work. and dreaded tranquility
she found an escape from both in a
wild gallop among the foothills She
became coquettish with regard to her
appearance. When she could coax a
dollar out of her father, she would
gallop off to San Diego to buy some
! trifie for the adornment of her pretty
| little person. If by my manner she
| fancied / approved the new addition,
she wore it till she could replace it
| with something else; but il / failed to
notice it, or she thought it was not to
my taste, she would fling it away be-
fore it was day old She abandoned
herself to the enjoyment of the new
life that came to her, and for some
time she seemed neither to remember
the past nor think of the future.
Under these conditions AL traces Of
illness disappeared, and with health
returned something of her old muffin
Gus independence; paternal authority
once more sank into insigniicance.
Brace quickly found occupation, and
after a time rendered me invaluable
assistance in the management Of the
business. One day as we were re-
turning from the packing sheds he
said:
"Tve looked around this consarn
pretty careful, and I see, sir. that
you're goin' to do great thing here,
You've found out jest where the real
grit O. this country lays, and you're
goin' to work it up into an almighty
pile.
That's what you're goin' to do, and
I'm everlastin' glad Of it, for more rea-
sons than one. And one reason is this
Pm gettin' more duberous every day
whether we shall ever get the Great
Hesper. For, fustly, when the frost
breaks up, the great hole where the
gel hes hid the stone may be SWEEP out
as clean as gun baril by the torrent
of melted snow, or it may be blocked
up for everlastin' by the mass of rock
that comes rollin down from the noun
tain sides every spring; and, secondly,
the kid may change her mind. She
may back out OF the promise she gave
us when she was sick. Rec'lect her
mother was greaser, and CONSEQUENT
ly it's nat'ral to her to tell lies when
they'll serve her purpose to make out
the diamond amt no longer where she
put it. Bear in mind also, sir, as she
warn't herself when she made the
promise, and that she's been gettin'
more herself since Her obs'nacy and
deviltry's comm back more and more
every day, and she's now almost the
obstinate contrary little cuss she was.
Keep on bearin' in mind that she stole
the diamond purposely to separate you
from Miss Lascelles, and bring you
down to a Urinary workin' man again.
1 see her game the day we lost the dia-
mond; / see it clearer AN ever when
we got over to Petersville- she was
that angry when told her there was
no good to be done minin' in the or
nary way-so eager fer me to write
and tell you there was going for the
stuff down the big hole. Now, for
tune to be made soon as / hit on the
idea of what's she to git by givin'
up the diamond-a little wuss than
nothin'. Which is why / rejice in the
prospect of your making big thing
of this 'ere orange CROWN. Still, sir,
we amt goin' to lose that diamond,
If we can help it, and we've got two
things to do We're got to keep our
eye on the snow, and get down the
great hole afore the Must of the slush
and rock comes tumblin' down, and
we're got to make the Kid believe as
things down here is so jolly flourish
i'm as we don't kere two straws wheth-
err we find the thing or not. You leave
that to me. I'll pitch it in strong 10
harp
And he kept his word. Every day
he exhausted his stock Of adjectives in
clarifying the estate and dilating upon
the marvellous results to be obtained
from fruit culture, and occasionally he
referred to the Great Hesper with
suchN contempt that one would have
thought it was hardly worth stretch
ing out ones hand to take.
This had the effect Brace desired.
She listened in moody silence, and
after had turned the subject she
would sit with her chin in her hands,
her elbows on her knees. and her great
sad eyes fixed upon some distant OBJ
ject, wrapped in dreamy meditation.
But Brace was not content with this.
One day / overheard him talking to
Lola when they were alone.
II reckon we shall to have to show
OF our good p'ints, my gel, before the
Squire and his daughter come here,
or we shall look pretty mean. by com
parison, and Gentleman Thorne will
@orter feel sick, SEEM us .hangin'
around. He'll say to hiself, nat'ral
like well, here's this squire and his