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business man was able to sell the property for seven hundred thousand
dollars。 He did this so promptly that I ventured to ask him if delay
might not have brought a greater price。 'Well'; he said; 'I don't know。
You must seize these things。 Blake and Beverly might have got tired
waiting。〃
〃'Blake and Beverly!' I exclaimed 'So they made the purchase。 It Mr。
Beverly back?'〃
〃'Just back。 To tell the truth I don't believe they're finding so much
copper as they hoped。'〃
〃This turned out to be true。 And I am not sure that the business man had
not known it all the while。 'We looked over the property pretty
thoroughly at the time of the Tamarack excitement;' he said。 And in a few
days more; in fact; it was generally known that this land had returned to
its old state of not quite paying the taxes。〃
〃Then I paid my visit to Mr。 Beverly; but with no cowhide。 'Mr。 Beverly;'
said I; 'I want to announce to you my engagement to Miss Ethel Lansing;
whose Michigan copper land you have lately acquired。 I hope that you
bought some for your mother。'〃
〃Those;〃 concluded Mr。 Richard Field; 〃are the circumstances attending my
engagement which I felt might interest you。 And now; Ethel; tell your
story; if they'll listen。〃
〃Richard;〃 said Ethel; 〃that is the story I was going to tell。〃
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