Fred Fearnot's New Ranch

casioned, by Fred's sudden change of front, when he turned from a bull t

that singular event, and it became well known that the brokers who had been attempti

ed, they made a neat little sum, and Broker Bellamy, who had been Fred's most persis

thugs to give him a good beating, but the news of their intention having reached Fred's ear

so fiercely that several of them were broken. The wounded slugger's pal was roundly thrashed, too, by Terry, who

deserted at the time that

ely sailed from New York for parts unknown, and all Wall Street became interested in the question of

just why they had gone away, but, of

, from that, the gossips began saying that the old broker had charged Fred and Terry with making way with his two nephews. At first Fred and Te

hand in making way with his nephews, but the old man, of course, denied the charge, whereupon Terry told him o

to one of the surgeons that he had been hired by the two Bellamy boys, and tha

hen he denied that he knew anything about the attack on F

ident and had it published in one of the big

unded man in the hospital and one also from the other thug who had witnesse

who already had many enemies in the Stre

ut in the aggregate they had gathered in a pretty good sum during the season, and they decided that they were pretty well paid for their return to Wall

he promptly wired back to them to stay there until he joined them, as he intended to come up a

his house by this time, and now he is in a hurry t

weet girl and dead in love with him, while

ry, I fear that he i

his and her feelings, and probably his mother's. I don't see how it is possi

and if it isn't I'll just advise him to postpone his trip North until it is." So h

et finished, and would not be for several months yet, but that his mot

diately w

d wait until the house is

e received a reply

t, sir, I

ol," Fred remarked, as he

, supply them with a carriage and a pair of horses, and you know it is not absolutely necessary for us to live out on the ranch entirely yet. The

r consent to our marriage if I intend to bring her down here to live. She seems to have a holy horror of Texas; for that state has the name, you know, all over this part of the country as being a place for which all law-breaker

. We may be able to persuade Mrs. Hamilton to our way of thinking." So a few days later they t

on Main street, and when they had finished their little shopping Eve

rised in their lives than when they s

ed Evelyn, "there a

ere?" Mary

nds?" and the two girls threw their arms around each other's necks a

e and at once left the station

Terry, threw her arms around his neck an

while probably a score of spectators stood looking on; but then neither of them c

how did you know tha

e thought of you and brother came into my head and my heart suggested that we come u

rt," said Fred, as he assi

and Hamilton families

recovered from their losses caused by failure of the Texas bank, and that they were thinking of going back

up to tell u

you girls, but about th

eir sweethearts, and their sweethearts were more than pleased to have them do so. Both the gir

en I would be glad to go down with you and brother and spend the winter there,

the best society people there at Crabtree, but I never saw Wall Street so dull in my life. I've had my revenge over the worst enemy I ever had the

for the old rascal. I don't enjo

to, but still we have no right to complain. We have not only saved ourselves from financial embarrassment, but have mone

you expecting to make th

t we can live elsewhere and do as we did on the Color

anywhere in the world where you

ary living so far from her. She has a great fear of the climate of Texa

ou tell her be

le of refinement live, and that I know nothing about the people out in the country. I laughed at her and asked her if she kne

if we could persuade you and Mary to go down

with us, and I will do my best to get Mrs. Hamilton's consent for Mar

I mean. I believe that we can, eventually, build up a little place of resort about that big, bold mineral spring just a mile from the railroad track, and I intend to have the water analyzed. The physicians claim down there th

ill plead with Mrs. Hamilton for her conse

pent with their sweethearts

ng that Evelyn was going down with him and Fred to

so nutritious as at our new ranch. It grows much taller, keeps fresh and green longer, and the soil itself is several degrees richer than the Colorado ranch. You never so

about some bad Mexican and American

ch? Are not murders committed right here in New York City often, and don't you read of them in the papers? Why, there is no place in the country where bad men don't live, and bad women, too, for that matter; and by this tim

n going back wit

t she would, but she

d that mother wil

nt," said Terry. "I'm not going

will have to talk

after you and I are married, and if she won't consent to your accompanying Evelyn down there, why I'll hurry

and spend the fall and winter in Texas with Evelyn, but she was firm in her refusal, saying that Mary had spent "

yn said that she would go down with them, as she had never enj

nd begged piteously for permission to accompany Evelyn. Mrs. Hamilton, though, put up all sorts of excuses. When she mentio

own, you know, and surely, as I am of age, I should