"But, major, now, YOU'RE a gentleman, and if
YOU had been driving that roller, you know you would have turned out for
us."
"I don't know about that," said the major, mischievously; "but if I
had, I should have known that the other fellow who accepted it wasn't a
gentleman."
But Rose, having sufficiently shown her partisanship in the discussion,
after the feminine fashion, did not care particularly for the logical
result. After a moment's silence she resumed: "And the wheat ranch
below--is that carried on in the same way?"
"Yes. But their landlord is a bank, who advances not only the land, but
the money to work it, and doesn't ride around in a buggy with a couple
of charmingly distracting young ladies."
"And do they all share alike?" continued Rose, ignoring the pleasantry,
"big and little--that young inventor with the rest?"
She stopped. She felt the ingenue's usually complacent eyes suddenly
fixed upon her with an unhallowed precocity, and as quickly withdrawn.
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