Part 23 (1/2)
”Yes,” said Jake, ”my notion is, Carrie could marry him when she liked”
”Do you think she sees it?”
Jake s is pretty plain All the sa hi satisfaction ”Martin's a good sort and he's rich; but there's no reason Carrie should take the first good et the very best
However, it's not my business and I don't know if it's yours”
”It's Carrie's,” said Jake, rather dryly ”She's generally able to e her affairs In fact, I allow she was successful when she ed ours----”
He stopped, for the door opened and Carrie came out She held a newspaper and looked excited
”You had better read this advertisement, Jim,” she said
Jim saw the newspaper was printed at Montreal two years before He glanced at the place Carrie indicated, started, and then looked straight in front
”How did you get the thing?” he asked after aShe took this piece just now to light the stove and saw the notice But are you the man they want?”
”Yes,” said Jim, quietly ”Franklin Dearham was my father”
Jake picked up the newspaper and they were silent for a fewto do about it?”
”To begin with, I'll write to the lawyers at Montreal,” said Jim, who knitted his brows ”After that I don't know The advertisement is cautious, but it looks as if Joseph Dearham was dead I don't think ”
”Was Joseph Dearham rich?” Jake asked
”He had so I've often thought about Langrigg, but I'd sooner the lawyers had left me alone”
”Why?”
”I've been happy in Canada I've friends I trust, I'ave hilance, but he went on: ”Then we ht be wanted in the Old Country”
”If you go, they h I don't like it,” Ji pulls and I resist However, co to the park”
They set off and Jihed and joked, but the jokes got flat and all were rather quiet when they went hos would not be the sa Jim wrote to the lawyers, who asked hirumbled and hesitated, but went and did not return for so after his arrival he and the others sat talking in a little room behind the store
The rooh black pipe from the base covered half the floor
Mrs Winter, looking worn and faded, occupied a rocking-chair She was better dressed than when Jiht the rather expensive material had been chosen with taste The quiet woh she wore the sta opposite, had been occupied in the store all day and had refused to change her working clothes Since Ji of an event, Mrs Winter was puzzled by her obstinacy
”I' is a fine city, but I feel Vancouver's hoave Jiet back here? After stopping at a big hotel!”