Beadle's Dime Novels No. 35: East and West — page 81: what you’re looking at

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THE TOWN-SITE DIFFICULTY. Si made haste to urge their marriage. This was the more easily arranged, as Charles Lord wished to remain in the West for six or eight weeks longer; and was glad to find an escort offering for Constance of so agreeable and proper a descrip- tion. This matter once settled, Constance immediately petitioned her uncle to allow Minnie to spend the winter with her in New York; to which he replied he was not able—but, after all, consented to her going, as much to Minnie’s surprise as delight ; for she could not at first realize the idea of such good fortune. The bridal party were to take a boat at Kanesville, after allowing a. few days of rest and preparation, succeeding the ball. “ Well, Constance,” said Mr. Willard, “Tam glad you let us give you a wedding; and though it was but a country- wedding, it was under a roof I wish you to. regard always as your own.” “Thank you, uncle; wherever my husband’s fortunes may lead me, I shall not soon forget that I owe you much kind- ness; nor that I have learned those things under your roof which have helped me to discipline my life.” “And your husband,” continued Mr. Willard, “is as wel- come as yourself to call my house his home. But I hope,” he added, watching Stewart's face, “ that he does not intend, like his partners up here, to destroy an old man’s property, provided he can’t get it for nothing.” “No sir,” replied Stewart, promptly ; “JT should never have i It is trne my interest in this new town is not great—but if it were, I should say the ed to me some points in the same. Constance has mention case, and I have examined into them, and believe you are right in your opinion of the nature of the overflow which sometimes deluges a portion of the town-site. And I believe, too, that you have the law on your side, which provides for dam-priv- ileges. J certainly shall use my influence in your favor.” “The most of that town company,” said Mr. Willard, ex- citedly, “are a set of scoundrels. They are some of the shrewdest of the frontiersmen, whose whole intelligence runs to money-getting ; and an honest man stands no chance at all a comliclbooks.conn