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ter works where he was employed. He seemed ten years younger than he had before the trip to th

the young m

re," he said, as he hung up his hat. "He had his hat jammed down on his h

wenty-five thousand dollars on the table, and

not as great as that of Clara, who at that moment put h

lionaires talking

" answered Jim loftily. "Money-the long g

lunch," threatened Clara, "and that means something,

to this lunch, fair maiden, and I'll tell you nothing but the plain, un

able, and Clara, all alive with curiosity,

fellow who was here this morning offered Joe si

n her amazement. Mr. Matson sat up with a jerk,

and dollars!" gas

' work!" exclaim

's-let me see-why, that's more than

y thousand dollars with him in bills, and he laid it down on the table as carelessly as though it was twenty cents. And all that t

l us what all this means! Jim i

hat's what comes from mi

d a thousand miles to call me a hick. I wouldn't stand for i

ation, "can't you make these idi

ds!" ejaculated

ed his mother. "I'm just d

from teasing Clara, who was an adept at that a

ess so far-while he told them about Westland's call and his prop

une, in fact, in that quiet town, and yet there was not one of that

call you foolish doesn't change things in the least. A man who sells himself for a hundred thousan

just what Joe would do," sai

" exclaimed Clara, coming round the

ad never appealed to Jim before, but just at

of the great event of the morning-that is, all but Joe,

she intercepted one of his glances. "Mabel's train doesn't

a little and

lame him?"

arling and I'm crazy to get hold of her.

napkin at he

t throw any straighter than that," she mocked. "It's a luck

their money after all!"

ra threw up her ha

Joe Matson, and

out of my home!" exclaimed the young b

to say to you, Joe, if you did such a mean thing as that," w

progress was 37 slow, for at almost every turn they were stopped by friends who wanted

ous brother," sighed Clara, when this

led to death to be walking alongside of him. Stop your sighing. Follow my example. I'm tickled t

etorted Clara in mock alarm. "

e when you said 'dear'

emy, stepped up and greeted Joe. He was earnest in his congratulations, but his manner was s

es now that I can thro

away at them in the World Series," said 38 Jim wi

tion and all that sort of thing. I had to rig up a couple of bamboo rods in a line, and get Dick Talbot, a friend of mine

vince him?"

e a sneaking notion that he thinks yet that Dick and I play

ked Clara. "It seems to me that almost everybod

plied Jim. "But it's a safe bet that one man a

hat?" ask

re' in the hall last night

urt him," observed

ressed him. He was a big fellow, and he 39 prob

rked Joe, loyal to his home town. "I never saw him

rse he won't mind

her eye caught sight of a figure she recognized on

her broth

talking to this morning,

e followed her glance. "And he's talking

you mean,"