The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1922-01-03
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make some allowances. 1t does seem
provoking that your grandfather
should have left things in such
dreadful muddle."
How much do you know about the
muddleT' / asked.
81 know that old Mr.. Dudley let,
or partly let, contract for the drain
ing of the mine, to man who was
almost a total stranger to him.
saw how it was. Fullerton, always
reader to talk than a stuck pig is to
bleed, had been giving her his own
version of things. But l 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 understanding
that nobody else has ever been able
to do"
"Don't you like to wOrk?"
"Why-e-e, guess I'm like other folk
in that respect. / don't mind working
if l 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 l was
having one until Satan came also"
Meaning Mr.. Bullerton?"
"Quite so; meaning Mr.. Fullerton,
christened Charles
Ought | to stay here and listen if
you're going to say things about him?"
'NOt if you are going to marry him,
you shouldn't"
"Well, why shouldn't l marry him
if l want TO? Hasn't he plenty of
money? And haven't l told you that
I'd marry for money!"
"Humph :" said / 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 me?"
'WhOse permissiOn-Daddy
mo; Bullerton's, of course"
81 don't have to ask it-yet."
"NOt yet, but sOOn," l grinned. "All
things come TO him-or her-whO
waits Just the same, you shouldn't
have come. It's cruelty to animals.
After man has travelled thousands of
miles to sit at the feet of the one girl
in the universe, only to find himself
eIbOwed by brOwn-whiskered jeet-"
"Hush!' she chided. Cant you
ever be serious? You are not sitting
at anybOdy's feet. What are you go
ing to do about the miner
FULLERTON offered to unwater the
Cinnabar if I'd deed him a bit more
than 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 way?"
"He offers to buy the mine outright,
just as it stands, for fifty thousand
dollars
"But your grandfather paid nearly
half a million for it, didn't he?"
"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 business trans
actiOn-if you'll permit me to go that
far. He even threatens to turn me
over to the authorities for stealing
that inspection car and getting it
smashed"
"Oh, l don't believe he'd do that -
she deprecated
at is perfectly right and proper
that you shouldn't think so-in the
pardon me if say that I'm swearing
continuously and prayerfully at the
circumstances"
you don't want me to marry money
and have good clothes and all the other
nice things, and travel and see the
world, and all that?"
"No by Jove! 1 want you to marry
me-"
Her laugh was just a funny little
gurgle.
"BIuebeard !" she said, just like
that "And you haven't even killed
Miss Randle yet! Thank you, ever so
much; but 1 don't want to be one of
several. Besides, you haven't any
money"
Talk of impasses and impossible sit
uatiOns What could man say, or
hope to say, to such a girl as that!
did you come over here just to
torment me?" 1 rasped.
"WOOfr' she shivered, there comes
the bear again r' and then, right smash
out of a clear sky: kiss me-just
Once Stannip-bear"
Did I? She was gasping a bit when
she got up rather unsteadily to &c
back to the cabin across the dump
head and wouldn't stay another min.
ute, though begged and pleaded with
her.
mo, indeed, Bluebeard man." she
said with that queer little gurgle of a
laugh "l-I think I have found out
what l wanted to. Goodby." And
then. after I thought she was clean
gone. she turned back TO say, airily
"Oh. yes; 1 had almost forgotten what
l came over hereS to tell you. You
mustn't sell -Cinnabar. Stannie; not