The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-12-10
CHAPTER TX.
To Fish or Cut Bait

AdAHc4 Aidu DScl LSAlie TIE AdAllAidE Han-
die, western-wise. right along. almost
from the day landed on the Cinnabar
reservation
"Yes." 1 said. and jumped up and
went to her
did you ever hear of such a thing
as a bear with a sore head" she
asked. in the tone Of a schou am
asking the dull boy If he'd ever heard
| of the letter "a"
Often" / admitted
well. isn't that the way you've been
actingT"
Haven't 1 some little causeT
Maybe, OF course, I'm willing to
make some allowances. 1t does seem
provoking that your grandfather
should have left things in such
dreadful muddle.H
How much do you know about the
muddIef" ] asked.
Il know that old Mr.. Dudley let,
or partly let, a contract for the drain
ing of the mine, 10 a man who was
almost total stranger to him."
l saw how il was Bullerton, always
reader TO talk than a stuck pig is TO
bleed, had been giving her his own
version of things. But let that part
of it go.
Grandfather Jasper. was laboring
for the good of my soul He knew his
medium as the artists say. He
wanted to make me work-sOmething
that nobody else has ever been able
TO do"
/ Don't you like TO work."
| "why-e-e, / guess I'm ike other folk
in that respect. / don't mind working
If / can pick my job-and my COM
pany I've been having a bully good
| time hammering around this old bunch
! of junk with your father. Or / was
having one until Satan came also"
Meaning Mr.. Bullerton?'
"Qufte SO; meaning Mr.. Fullerton,
christened Charles"
Ought i to stay here and listen If
you're going to say things about himT'
Not if you are going to marry him,
you shouldn't"
"weu, why shouldn't / marry him
If want TO? Hasn't he plenty of
money! And haven't told you that
I'd marry for money!"
"Humph ~ said L when you talk
that way you are saying out loud just
what Lisette says TO herself-only you
don't mean it and she does. But tell
me how did you get permission to
come over here and talk with me2'
Whose rmissiOD-Daddy'sT
"No; BuIlerton's, of course"
81 don't have to ask it-yet"
Not yet, but sOOn," grinned. @AlI
things come TO him-or her-whO
waits Just the same, you shouldn't
have come. It's cruelty to animals.
After q man has travelled thousands Of
miles to sit at the feet of the one girl
I'm the universe, only TO find himself
eiD0wed by brown-whiskered jeet-"
"HushI' she ehided Cant you
ever be serious? You are not sitting
at anybody's feet. What are you go
ing to do about the miner"
"Buller;on offered to unwater the
Cinnabar if I'd deed him a bit more
than a half interest-and possibly he'd
still be willing TO do that, which would
mean that he'd form a stock company
and freeze me out completely when
he got good and ready"
"And what IS the other wayT
"He offers to buy the mine outright
just as 1t stands, Tor fifty thousand
dollars"
But ycGr grandfather paid nearly
half a million for it. didn't hep
''Even so. But. you see. in the pres
ent scrap I'm the under dog. The man
you are going to marry has none Of the
nice little scruples in a business trans
aetion-if you'll permit me 20 go that
| far. He even threatens to turn me
over to the authorities for stealing
that inspection car and getting il
smashed
"oh. don't believe he'd do that p
she deprecated.
at is perfectly right and proper
that you shouldn't think sO-in the
circumstances. Just the same, you'll
pardon me if / say that I'm swearing
continuously and prayerfuIly at thu
circumstances
you don't want me to marry money
and have good clothes and all the othel
nice things. and travel and see ths
world. and all thatT"
NO, by Jovet 1 want you to MARI,
me-"
Her laugh was just a funny Htu'
gurgIe
"BIuebeardl" she said, just liki
that "And you haven't even kiIleS
Miss RandIe yet Thank you, ever 3
much: but 1 don't want to be one G
several. Besides. you haven't an.
money
Talk of impasses and impossible SIT
uatiOnsl What could a man say. o
hope TO say, to such a girl as that
did you come over here just q
! +a--sapf meY' rasDed