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ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS
"I suppose because I've got a bald spot and a stiff leg you'd be willing to believe rue capable of robbing a bank!" The Colonel pinched the round, white arm about his shoulders, a rich chuckle running thru his words. " Lucky the juries aint made up of susceptible females, or there wouldn't be a handsome murderer hung! Well, well, and so you think I ought to accept young Mason's offer, do you? Now, I'll make a bargain with you. Give me a good, sensible reason why I should do it and I will. Gad, that's fair enough. Come; out with it, puss!
Under the broad twinkle of her father's gaze, the girl's face took on the sweet color of a mountain rose. The crotchety old man, watching below sagging lids, averted his eyes in sudden shame at the brave confession in her straight, young look. ' ' I trust him because I love him," said the violet eyes; "I cannot tell you the true reason," pleaded her rosied cheek, "because he has not spoken — yet.
Snowden sprang to her feet in a panicky swirl of skirts.
"There! That's he now — no man in Madison Hills has energy enough to ring a ^^^^ bell like that! Now, ^pVHk remember yourprom ][ m ise, daddy !
I gave you Eq^ p^> 1 a good reason-didn't T* ■ I?"
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A reason?" challenged her lips. ' ' Very well, then; here ' s my reason : I think the offer for your coal lands must be fair because Mr. Mason says it is, and I want you to accept it, because — because " — two warm lips hovered
above his ear — "because — because it will please me ! There ! Surely, that 's a good enough reason for the most critical, carping, suspicious, grasping old duck of a daddy in the world!"
The peal of the doorbell joggled the kiss, that was meant for his forehead, to the tip of his nose. Grace
COLONEL SNOWDEN
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old man held her vivid, laughing young face, with its velvet texture and warm coloring, between his hands, seeing,
across the chasm of years, another
face so like it that his eyes grew dim. "The best reason in the world,
child," he said, a trifle huskily.
"There, there! Clear out with you.
"We're going to talk business, this
young man and I ! "
The tall, brown young giant in the
doorway followed the girl's slim fig