Part 26 (1/2)
”It's soraph line,” Carrie re to do co It's prudent to consider before you begin to lish He had, of course, been to McGill, but since they reached the Old Country he was dropping his Western colloquialisnificant that he did so unconsciously
”Perhaps I'd better tell you how things are, so far as I understand the is expensive, and I doubt if I ah to loaf in proper style”
”If you want to loaf in proper style, you must be born and raised for the job,” Jake observed
”That's true, to soot the habit Well, , but when you have paid taxes and repaired the homesteads they don't leave veryto pay for owning land; but that plan's not sound”
”Then, you have another?”
”It's not worked out The leases of two good fare them myself Then I own the marsh, which feeds soood alluvial, like the gurow heavy crops if one could keep out the water Well, we have seen s haul fro truck in two hours' ride The proposition, however, needs soot”
Jake's eyes twinkled ”I reckon that wouldn't stop you if you resolved to dyke the ot the estate?”
”I did not I understand Joseph Dearha down he gave soet out of the inheritance duties like that; besides, he had not ive my father much However, I have a rich relation, froht to satisfy”
”Bernard Dearham? dick Halliday talked about hirandfather Joseph's brother Joseph was satisfied to live quietly at Langrigg like a s some iron mines not far off Joseph married twice, and Mrs Halliday and Mordaunt's hters She was a ith two children when she married Joseph So you see, Mrs Halliday is not my aunt”
”Then, Evelyn Halliday is not your cousin,” Carrie remarked
”I suppose she's not,” said Jim ”Anyhow, since I'm a Dearhaer claie the clai, he leftto run it as I like”
”Do you htful ”I iine so; I don't know yet There are drawbacks, but soot up and beckoned Jake ”Let's go and see the farms”
They went off and Carrie turned to Mrs Winter ”He'll stay; we'll lose him soon I think I kneould lose him when you found the advertisement------”
She paused and Mrs Winter reirl the old newspaper Carrie had hesitated for aand Carrie resumed:
”Well, I wanted to see the Old Country and you needed a rest The life they live here is fuller than ours; it's so, although Jilance, but Carrie's face was cal and Carrie studied the old house Langrigg ht would presently s and tried to sy
In the meantime, Jim went to see his tenants He dined with one at noon in an old far horses, buildings, and agricultural machines On the whole, he puzzled the sh they liked his frankness and answered his direct questions, since it was obvious that this was a s were done
Sorandfather talked about Jireed that he had not entleman; he was like Bernard Dearham, who opened the famous iron mines
When they returned in the afternoon across the small turnip and stubble fields, Jio across the ainst a gate, indicated the long rows of hedges that ran down the slope and melted into an indistinctlabor andtheir little fields, but I reckon they're slow and stubborn It wouldn't pay to hustle them yet”
”No,” said Jake, with a twinkle ”I expect it hurts to feel you ot to allow for the idiosyncrasies of human nature It's harder to use men properly than horses and es and ht across the far land on weeds and thorns”