The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21
that it would be hard TO predicate even
how many months he should still remain
DenisOn of Glinn.
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-
stitution 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 a
patriarchal age. He draws his chair
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
don't suppose it will be much harm in
your case"
How did he go this morning.
| "Well, | wasn't there; but Stephen
tells me h. did a good steady gallop. If
he keeps right, he'll about win the Two
Thousand
Yes" chuckled the old man. 1--WE
been racing now getting on fifty years,
and / don't think / ever saw my way
into n 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 l want TO talk TO you about.
There's young Sheffington; he's 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 amountf"
Yes Sam-yes. Well get that from
him in time; but / doubt there'll be bit
of waiting for it. Don't take long odds
from him again. What else?"
We'll, Washington stands to lose a
thousand to us. He doesn't bear the
character of very good pay"
Hes the biggest thief in England;
but he'll pay me, though he don't every
body +,
And why you, in Particular inquired
his son.
Because he made a mistake about his
name in early life. Sam and he is quite
aware that / know it, and could rake up
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 little pressure,
that'll be good money, if it's won, eh?"
JUS So" nodded the fathe.
"Now, well come to something else
Just listen to this. I've pretty well come
| to the conclusion that | bad better get
married"
| Il don't see any reason you should
not; on the contrary, | 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, think, in the de-
sign. We've made a good bit of money
between u.s. I'm not going TO say it isn't
most of it yours: still, since | have been
having a share in the concern, I've put
in marriage is connection, more than
| money"
'Yes-yes, l think you are right; but
! there will be Observation-Disclosures,
| 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 a key to most things nowadays.
Tottering coronets must be propped by
| wealthy alliances. The parson or doctor
| marries the rich tallow chambers widow
Marriage is a social contract in these
| times 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 / was saying, you agree
with ne that / must look out more for
connection than money, don't you?"
| "Yes, think that's best but it would
do no harm if you could see your way
into a trife of property besides
Exactly. l was at the minister ball
last night, and the prettiest girl in the
room was the daughter of old Denison of
| Glinn. / got introduced to her; danced
with her, and did quite as well as anyone
could expect to do in a first dance-just
made her acquaintance, in fact Now
that's the lady I've marked down as my
| intended"
Yes" said the old man musingly,
that might do if we could bring it about !;
but he's a proud man, the father-yery."
| We'll come to that presently. just
listen while l reckon up all the adyan-
tages. First of all, have taken a fancy
to the girl. She's a real beauty. every
inch of her. In the next place, she's
an only child. Consequently, it's only
| fair to suppose that Glinn and what's
left With it will eventually fall to her.
We lave got most of the old property
now; and that would insure the whole
thing being in our hands at last"
Yours, Sam, yours. 1t is not likely
I'd last to see ii. Harold Denison is full
twenty years younger than | am, and his
wife is younger again; they'll see me
out, boy"
well, father, it's no use denying it
may be So Still, in days to come,
should be Pearman OF Glinn; and with
a wife of their own class, it would be
hard if I didn't take my place in the
county"
Yes. you should manage it, though
have failed but you've had advantages
hadn't, Sam. You've a pull, you see,
in education; / hadn't much. The art
of making money | taught myself, and it
didn't leave time for learning a deal of
anything else. You start with a tidy lot
made: and / think l have shown you
enough to insure your not making ducks
and brakes of it."
mo, l don't think / shall hurt. can
take care of myself pretty well at most
games on the board. | never dabble in
anything | don't understand. Don't you
make yourself uneasy about me, gov
ernor. Now, Denison is poor man, is
he not?
Yes; he has well on to three thou
sand a year nominal rental left still :
but there's more than one mortgage on
the property, LEI alone other charges"
Haven't you some money on the prop
erty yourself?"
Ten thousand Sam, and I'm first
mortgage; but | know there's a second
mortgage of the same amount, and there
may be more for all | know
We'll. these. you see, are all points in
my favor. We could make this first mort
gage quite easv for him. at all events"
Its a deal of money-ten thousand
pounds; but of course it would be differ