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"Can I speak with you a moment, Colonel?" she asked

The Colonel did not stir or reruffness into his tone

"Well, what is it?"

Of course, she was not asked to sit, but she stood with her hands clasped loosely before her and her eyes half veiled

"Colonel, I've got a thousand dollars" She did not mention the other nine

The Colonel sat up

"Where did you get it?" he asked

"Mrs Vanderpool gave it to oing to do with it?"

"Well, that's just what I caive it to the school, but I've been thinking that I'd like to buy soot no land to sell," said the Colonel

"I was thinking you lanced at each other and the Colonel re-lit his cigar

"How ht perhaps two hundred acres"

"Two hundred acres? Do you expect to buy that land for five dollars an acre?"

"Oh, no, sir I thought it ht cost as ot a thousand dollars"

"Yes, sir; I thought I ht pay that down and then pay the rest fro to work on the place?"