Hamlin Garland

Money Magic Hamlin Garland

Book Excerpt: ...his intentions."But--but--you're so old--I mean so much older--""I know I am, and I'm rough. I don't deny that. I'm forty, but then I'm what they call well preserved," he smiled, winningly, "and I'll soon have an income of wan hundred thousand dollars a year."This turned the current of her emotion--she gasped. "One hundred thousand dollars!"He held up a warning hand. "Sh! now that's between us. There are those younger than I, 'tis true, but there is a kind of saving grace in money. I can take you all out of this daily tile like winkin'--all you need to do is to say the wan word and we'll have a house in Colorado Springs or Denver--or even in New York. For what did you think I left me business on the busiest day of every week? It was to see your sweet daughter, and I came this time to ask her to go back with me.""What did she say?""She has not said. We had no time to talk. What I propose now is that we take a drive out to the ranch and talk it over. Williams will...