The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-03-19
CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER III.
In the very modern but extremely COM
Portable dining room of Mannersley, the
Pearmans, father and son, are sitting.
The old man has turned seventy. and
can hardly be said to look as if his
money -grubbing career had agreed with
him. He is shrunk and worn, with
stoop in his shoulders. Altogether, he
wears the aspect of man whose con-
sttution is beginning to break up. Wealth
is not amassed without much wear and
tear of mind and constitution, and your
great turf spectators seldom attain
closer to the blazing crate.
81 think I've got bit of a cold, SAM"
he remarked. Better me than Coriander,
though, isn't it!'
"Well, father, am sorry for you; but
l don't suppose it will be much harm in
your case"
"How did he go this morning.
"Well, l wasn't there; but Stephen
tells me he did a good steady gallop. If
he keeps right, he'll about win the Two
Thousand
LES, CuuChlcU Tue OH uldu. We
been racing now getting on fifty years,
and l don't think 1 ever saw my way
into a much better thing than this looks
like. We've got on, too, at very pretty
price, take it all around. 1t will be a
hottish Monday for some of them"
Il hope so; but there's one or two
things 1 want to talk to you about
There's young Shefhngton; he's a crack
Drained young fool, and I've got him
down in my book to the tune of loser of
twelve hundred if Coriander wins. Now,
you have done business with him-is he
| good for that amount?"
"Yes, Sam-yes. Well get that from
| him in time but l doubt there'll be bit
of waiting for it. Don't take long odds
from him again. What else?'
well, Washington stands to lose a
| thousand to US. He doesn't bear the
character of a very good pay"
He's the biggest thief in England !;
| but he'll pay me, though he don't every
| BODY ,
And why you, in particularly inquired
his son.
Because he made a mistake about his
name in early life, SAM and he is quite
| aware that l know it, and could rake I'D
evidence enough against him, if he irri-
tated me, to make things, to say the
least of it, very unpleasant, as far as he
is concerned"
Good! Then, with a little pressure,
that'll be good money, if it's won, eh?'
| Just So" nodded the fathe
snow, we'll come to something else.
Just listen to this. I've pretty we'll come
to the conclusion that l had better get
married.
Il don't see any reason you should
not; on the contrary, 1 should like to
see it. Not going to make fool of your
self, suppose ?"-and the old man look
ed keenly at his son.
Tell you more about it when it comes
off: but certainly not, 1 think, in the de-
sign. We've made a good bit of money
between us. I'm not going to say it isn't
most of it yours; still, since have been
having share in the concern, I've put
some together myself. Now, what want
in marriage is connection, more than
money!
"Yes-yes, l think you are right; but
there will be difficulties difficulties, |
fear"
'Of course there will, to a certain ex-
tent; there always is about getting any
thing worth having in this world; but
money is key to most things nowadays
) Iottering coronets must be propped by
wealthy alliances. The parson or doctor
marries the rich tallow chambers widow
Marriage is social contract in these
times. A hundred thousand pounds from
Manchester stands out for strawberry
leaves in the coronet, while fifth of the
money from Birmingham is quite content
; to put up with an Honorable Well, to
return to what l was saying, you agree
J with me that l must look out more fol
connection than money, don't your"
Yes, l think that's best; but it would
) do no harm if you could see your way
into trife of property besides"
Exactly. l was at the Xminster bal
last night, and the prettiest girl in the
!! room was the daughter of old Denison Of
Glinn. / got introduced to her; danced
J with her, and did quite as well as anyone
could expect to do in FIRST dance-iust