The fellow I let to wrote me a few weeks ago that he was tired of
ranching and wanted to clear out. He hoped I could find someone to buy
his cattle and the furniture he's put in the house. The letter was
forwarded by a man I keep in touch with my business and whereabouts, so
he can look after my interests. I've had no time to answer yet.
"I was going to write that I didn't know any one who cared to settle in
Texas; but now what if I wrote that I'd take the place and everything on
it off the fellow's hands myself?"
"I don't know what Texas is like," Annesley replied, coldly. "But
anything would be better than the life you're leading now."
"I wasn't intending to go alone," Knight reminded her. "I said, if you'd
stick by me, not throw me over altogether, I'd try and begin again. In
that case, Texas would do as well as anywhere; and the place and the
money are clean."
"How could I go with you, and live under the same roof, with everything
so changed?" the girl exclaimed. "It would kill me!"
"As bad as that?... Well, then, I must rack my brains for something else.
But I'm sorry this won't do.
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