on to a Y

er of his valued possessions, was i

of manner and buoyancy of enthusiasm that he had whispered to Fitz to bring him in at once and give hi

ens tied up with a bit of Aunt Nancy's white yarn. The following day he had nailed his visiting card above the firm's name in the corridor, hung his

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gested that all such rents were generally payable monthly, the

ty so generous that its memory will never fade from my mind. I cannot bring

ir service for any purpose or for any length of time, and have slept in the woodshed himself; and he would a

were to him only evidences of a lordly sort of hospitality which endeared the real proprietor of the

own letters, suh? Never! Ou

eart in a tumble and was sold out-that is, nobody to whom the colonel talked. Once convince the enthusiastic Virginian that the scheme wa

trust shares were going up-"not a point or two at a time, gentlemen, but with the spring of a panther, suh." Of course the railroad earn

y seem, his cheery word just at the right time tided over the critical moment many an uncertain watcher at the "ticker," often to an enlargement

ut look at me, suh! There's my hand; never refer to it again." And then he would offer the offender his card in

ny extent in his "Garden Spot of Virginia," as his pet enterprise soon came to be known around the Street, everybody wished it well, and not a few wo

bundle of papers in the big blue envelope was returned with various comments. "In view of our present financial engagements we are unable to undertake your very attract

xt week it would be better. And the colonel always believed him. Fitz was his guiding star,

nd the map, nearly upsetting the colonel, who was balanced back in his chair with his long legs over the desk,-a favorite attitud

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usive sort of commercial sea-serpent with its head in London and its tail around the globe. The "inquiry" which had s

le, and had gotten as far as the double-span iron bridge

you from a

glasses, and punched a hole in the rumpled map within

ithin a stone's thro

much astonishment as if it were

ft?" said t

erstand, although I have never used it,

is intercourse with the colonel he had never before know

then said suddenly, "I'll take the papers and

determined to pin him down, "that there

alf a dozen spots right on our own place? O

old me a wor

been of any use to me. Besides, suh, we have pl

the coal question: who had tested it, the character of the soil, width of the vein, and dip of the

us to his friend's sudden interest in the coal-field, and slightly

see yo' drift. You have kept the Garden Spots for the foreign

es with thirty per cent. margin; the shabby old man with a solemn face who watches the ticker a moment and then wanders aimlessly out, looking more like an underpaid clerk in a law office than the president of a crosstown railroad-long of one thousa

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R. R. was soon around the office, and each habitue had a bright word for t

es, who had been trying for weeks to get a Denver l

the only freight it would get, outside of peanuts and sweet potatoes, would be razor-back ho

r. Klutchem, I cannot permit you, suh, to use

, old Garden S

ed the colonel even m

airfax Caarter," said t

imicking him, perhaps un

he colonel lost all control of himse

pin' with the evident vulga'ity of yo' mind. If I can ascertain that you have ever had any claim to be considered a gentleman you will hear fr

ode into the private office with the ai

of the clerks and bystanders, burst into a loud laugh, and l

itzpatrick. I poked holes in his road