[Heart’s Desire by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link bookHeart’s Desire CHAPTER XIV 12/14
He just went up the trail with your daughter, sir." "The yards'll wipe him out," said Barkley. "The valley is so narrow," went on Ellsworth, "according to what our engineers say, that we've got to clean out the whole lower part of the town, in order to lay out the station grounds." Dan Anderson started.
The money in his pocket suddenly burned him. "The trouble with your whole gang," resumed Barkley, striking a match on a log, "has been that you've been trying to stop the world.
You can't do that." Dan Anderson, silent, grim, listened to what he had not heard for many months, the crack of the whip of modern progress.
Yet, before his eyes he still saw passing the vision of a tall, round figure, sweet in the beauty of young womanhood, even as he was strong in the strength of his young manhood. "I'll help you all I can honorably, gentlemen," said he, at length, rising; "we'll talk it over up at the town itself.
I don't know just what we can do in the way of recognizing existing rights, but in my opinion force isn't the way to go about it." "Well, we'll use force if need be; you can depend on that!" said Barkley, harshly.
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