[The Purchase Price by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link book
The Purchase Price

CHAPTER XIII
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Thank you, I shall taste your bourbon, Colonel, with gladness.

It is a long ride in from the river; but, following out our friend's thought, why do you live away back in here, when all your best plantations are down below?
We don't see you twice a year, any more." "Well," said the owner of Tallwoods, "my father might be better able to answer that question if he were alive.

He built this for a summer place, and I use it all the year.

I found the place here, and it always seemed too big to move away.

We set three meals a day, even back here in the hills, and there's quite a bunch of leaves we can put on the table.


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