Show 4 I 1 if BUYING A I 1 i S PLACE t s 4 the price beni very high rhen dropped 4 1 iby LUCY K P t Copy copyright richt 1310 1910 by american press J ass 0 clation T t A young youn 9 ma a a boat on a mcw england lake rested on his oars before a plank landing on which stood a young woman evidently waiting for something beg pardon he said to her tier la is there here a road behind tt se bouses houses up there leading down to the railroad sta tion at Parl viner les there Is was the reply the young man gaped raped about him as though interested in the liy ot of the land he wa was really interested in the girl who was quite comely ue was tryst trying ig to think of iome other question to ask her la in order to leep up a con can you tell mo we who occupies that white house up on that crest be he ask ed pr egerton there was wai another pause the re piles were so exactly to the point that they did not invite any turner furber ques honing however wever the young man wes wa not to be dropped im looking for a place liko like that on this lake he said 1 I wonder if it could be bought 1 I there theres hardly a piece of 0 property PrOPer tv li 19 the world that cannot be bought it the purchaser i la ii willing to tire a largo large enough price ive looked over all these new eng laud land baks with a view to buying a bummer summer residence and I 1 liko this bit of 0 water bitter than any of them my mother and sister wont won it go to hotels and I 1 dont like them myself we wish a place re we can go as abon as spring opens and atay stay till late in the autumn the young lady evinced no interest la i the young mane mans family plans and made no reply that place up there would suit us exactly be he continued 1 I 1 would like to spend all the rest of my summers there the view must be fine one there would bo be no harm in your trying to buy it said the girl you might write a note to the owner asking it if any sum you would be prepared to pay would be accepted I 1 thank you very much for the suggestion at that moment there were sounds of motorboat ensine en ine explosions and a launch was nis seen making for the 1 linding ind it soon pulled up there under care of a single boat boatman milin the young lady got aboard and without so much as a look 1001 nt at the oarsman was vas catir cabied led aay mighty one looking girl he be said to himself well vell but plainly dressed and with nn an air of being somebody I 1 wonder onder T who ho she Is I 1 jack alvrn born was an enormously wealthy young man having inherited the bulk bull of tits hi father a property and sail was accustomed to having anything money could buy that be desired dhere wn t something om ething unique in the agerton pine place that struck bla his fancy lie ile could t very well ell build such a place to begin with be get the site then it would require halt half a century to grow the trees besides there was an old fashioned look about the w hole place that could not bo be im As the young lady had liala thin would be no harm in trying to buy it an I 1 he resolved to drop the owner a note aslin asking if it be would con elder lder an offer he lie did so and received a reply written in a womans band hard as follows or dr egerton desires me m to the receipt of your note not asking if nn an offer for or this place will be considered and to ay iy t that hat it has ha been in the agerton fam am lly so 0 o many ears that there Is I 1 at prea pres ent no intention on the part of the owner to ell sell it however the doctor gouid like to know what it would brine lour tours truly II 11 secretary abord was aa versed in b business methods to waste no further time in correspond puce lip lie called upon D egerton for it conr rence lip was b itts it 1 ts Mi mearthy arthy u middle aged ludy lady win who told him that the doctor had one to the city hut but that ahe she the ithe secretary i had charge of such busani busl ni w battem a as required at in the doctors 4 albence and hart had power to act aborn asked what tho the property pro orty would brin bring if offered openly for sale and miss 31 mccarthy cCarthy said she thought bought t it would easily sell rell to fo A thereupon hereupon aborn born made an uffer offer of for it the secretary said that ae she would transmit the offer it her principal und would write him in due time a note came to born stating briefly that hi 4 offer not be accepted lip ile was quite ridy rendy to rale it but did not like daaling through it third party lie called aguin tin on the doctor but wa was mriln li 11 nt not seeing peeing him the doctor was at home but viry busy keborn left word with ohp th secretary that be would his bid to I 1 reply to this bl came to him that astonished him it was this dr egerton desires me rne to inform air ir aborn abo that ha t In quirles having ir been mud a ae I 1 to 0 ats his ti financial stan tandl diric nr and hta his abal it tty t 0 pay for any purchase ew he be might make the responses are perfectly perfect lir atla sells factory but the doctor han has alio also ben been informed that mr sir abom aborn la Is one of y yeun men who byln icher inherited 1 led tare large rans an think they the y can acquire anything they fancy faner surely there 1 40 property without a price but 04 etee on the li kerton place Is I 1 in apropo a r ta to M enormous enor mou fortune it lj Is nor enor h ajro yours truly SAHAH II 11 st aborn wa at 4 t a toni 11 bed ill all thin reply tv hl a a ml mad d at it art t he determined lu drop in diat mutter ter lu 1 wit bil lence but he was will tuo fix arri bated to do thi I besides Ile sides be lie wn wa 4 curl curt oua ous to r what nort sort of man abl docto wax ww who would go 40 fir out of ba 4 ft ay tu IV insult 0 bwy anu onla fault aa wat a desire to po poss cx as the E kair ton home homestead dead lie determined to make male oue more effort to see him lie cal called led but again was obliged to be content with nith seeing toe the secretary the dotor baring again gone to the city cit on important bu business A I 1 Is thia this doctor be asked in an arri bated tone a regularly educated phy or a auk lunt 0 dr r arton 13 1 something higher than evin ev n a it regularly educated phyll clan the doctora title Is dotor do tor of philosophy IN hat then does he do tor for a lining tho doctor Is a sociologist ob I 1 see has something to do with the running of the town charities city charities principally 1 I know a man who has duch a position but be he vet get much of a sal sai 1 ary to this there was no response nell ell continued aborn 1 I wish w ish you wo would uld tell this sociologist that hell hed bet tf te cut out his degree till he has learn ed to treat his fellow men with proper civility I 1 had a perfect right to in quire whether be would sell bis tits place and was led to believe that an offer would be acceptable even it if not accepted then I 1 receive an lou have not yet offered enough TL doctor holds the property tar far above its intrinsic worth on account of its having been so long in the family aborn being angry thought bow how nice it would be to ofer a price ebli insulting sociologist could not afford to decline very well he said tell him III give him for it 11 hea lies will he be at bomeli home tomorrow ill call for the reply aborn looked over the premises as he went away and determined to give double the price offered 1 if necessary buy adjoining tracts and make the place a paradise though be he did not know jt it all this fever to possess the ile place was nas born of hla his desire to have his own way nay in everything and to take tale revenge tor for having been told the truth the nest next morning aborn was rowing on the lake when he met the girl he had seen on the landing she was in ta a canoe bg virdon he said but the girl stopped paddling and waited Ier perhaps haps boj yo will remember aug sug gesting that I 1 write the owner of the white house up there aalen asking it if he h would like to nil 11 the place ell 1 bat hat kind of a man la is be tie anyway dr egerton la Is a very teve level headed beaded person anything the doctor tell tells you has fins v eight to it IL 11 II in lie ile F no gentlemen gent lemin in 1 ahe I be doctors very plain spoken I 1 should think he be Is I 1 hot my suggestion baan t led to un thing disagreeable oh oil the suggestion was very lle life as well el I 1 is Ls i ery kind lind 11 Is 19 the pl place ice for sale 0 I 1 suppose it Is but for a man wh who gets probably 75 a month for running tho gocr axx r hes bes mighty independent rhe girl made no reply to this in deed ehe indicated that the dialogue dian t interest her by putting her pad die dle in ili the water aborn dipped hia his ours oars and athly pulled apart during the afternoon aborn abord called ut ur dr Lg ertons to learn it if would buy a place worth not over a third of that amount lie ile had given up rn expectation of seeing the doc doe tor for inured he rather thought it let bet ter he should not lie ile feared he would i le be tempted to punch the anan s head he ile wis standing in the draw i ins ing room looking out through a win in low on the lake alj a hearing a rus tie theof of comat a clothing behind ham h e turned burn d ell etting to me the secretary hm aaa as his to set the girl he lie tad I 1 ad met first on the landing jid id the t line itile morning in a tanu anut her eyia were bubbling with mischief vw V w lul hat doe chils tm an herstam indred ou cullel to see act ur dr U agerton Cg erton did un till not I 1 I 1 es 1 I 1 am ur dr ERE eafton ton I 1 IOU ou 1 CIS 1 am cornelia egerton ab 1 h 1 D 1 1 see it was scarcely necessary tor for him to add anything to these two simple gimple words for it was evident that his eyes bad had beca been opened very stupid of me it if ue be seated I 1 owe you an apology ahe I 1 he temptation was too strong for me illow about that information ou ot of aboia aboa me merl made out ot of whole cloth 1 I our secretary ecret ary ry 1 my aunt she eald sald so about your run ning a ity charity bureau a his blessed me with NI th great wealth I 1 cou consider skier myself simply p 11 disposer in order to diepen w it intelligently I 1 studied so cloo heaven hat ha also given roe me great wealth but it occurred to tu ine me to give it away till after my death when I 1 atrall have bare no use for it better adopt my plan do yon really own this bouse house lee ies but I 1 owa another I 1 like hot ter 1011 w may have this one for what I 1 consider it worth donel V year later tha doctor went with S the house |