Beadle's Dime Novels No. 126: Old Jupe — page 60: what you’re looking at

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62 OLD JUPR. for? I should thiuk he could find something else to do. be- sides visiting other men’s houses in their absence !” “Why, Pareell, he has just returned from the mines. It’s strange if he can’t call upon his own’ relatives,” Nettie said, quickly, while her heart beat a little faster. With the coward- ice of guilt, she trembled lest her secret should be discovered, She did not love Parcell, and never had loved him; but, above all things, would she ayoid haying him suspect that she mar- ried him out of pique, while madly in love with another. She knew that principle would be no restraint upon her husband should he become jealous; that he was in a society where he might, with safety, indulge in revengeful feelings, and she had no desire to awaken in him a hatred of Luke. “ “Relative ! ” rejoined Parcell, with a sneer; “don’t draw it quite so fine as that, Nettie.” “ Well, friend—if you like that better. I should think, in this wild country, you would be glad to see any face you had ever met before.” “Tm sick of his, any how, my lady,” said the husband, with a decision unusual with him. ‘“ He’s too good to suit my taste. He’s one of your perfect people, always: holding them- selves up as a mirror to show off other men’s defects in. He won't do for California, I tell you.” | “Tle seems to be getting along better than some who make their money easier. I was asking him about his affairs to-day. You know he brought out five thousand dollars with him. He invested it in a lot and in building a brick store upon it; and the property, this minute, is werth five times what it cost. He lias twenty other city lots, and is part owner of a boat that runs between here and Sacramento. Ina few days, he is going to buy shares in a valuable placer.” | “Oh!” said Parcell-with a shrug, “that comes of being of ® business turn of genius. He makes a good deal, and sticks to it when he gets it. Hell be a ‘millionaire, if he keeps on. Better get into his good graces, Nettie, and induce him to will his little property to us! Don’t look as if he’d live long, if he don’t quit moping about that affair in Missouri.” Annette gave her husband a curious look; but he did not whernirs as, just then, the candle flared in its socket and went conniclooolks.com