. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . a »ooiiip S;omc .it iJtttjtrteooti (^Blainfitlb), £. J. haps, she reasoned, if she manifested thispersonal interest in ilie man he might he aHttle more commnnicative on the suhject ofchicken farms. Arent yon and Air. irevnr on friendlvterms. she ventured. ■-My. yes. ptriectlv. Latham repliedquickly. •■\\ere the best of friends. Hegives me all the work I want. Oh, I see, said the girl, and made upher mind that this tack was not apt to bearresults. .Surely this person was mightilyinde
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . a »ooiiip S;omc .it iJtttjtrteooti (^Blainfitlb), £. J. haps, she reasoned, if she manifested thispersonal interest in ilie man he might he aHttle more commnnicative on the suhject ofchicken farms. Arent yon and Air. irevnr on friendlvterms. she ventured. ■-My. yes. ptriectlv. Latham repliedquickly. •■\\ere the best of friends. Hegives me all the work I want. Oh, I see, said the girl, and made upher mind that this tack was not apt to bearresults. .Surely this person was mightilyindependent. It seemed futile to (incssewith such a disposition, so she trie I boldertactics. Would you mind driving me to wherethere are small chicken farms—that issmall farms suitaljle for mv ijurpose? sheasked. Id he delighted, Latham asserted, andimmediately set the girl to wondering whatmanner of man this was who, one momentseemed just what any livery driver mio-htbe and in the breath too gallant forsuch station in life. Certainlv, his vc ice. a Slainfielb »ts(bcnc£ was not plebeian,and his language—her conjectures weresoon broken in uponby Lathams nextwords. .About a m i 1 efarther out this road—Pleasant \ a 11 e vDrive they call it—he said, theres adandy little place—from what I knowof it, just the sort\ou are looking for,I should say—andfour or five proper-ties around the cor-ner, on the turnpike,is another—a littlesmaller, perhaps, butquite as adaptable to\our inirpose. She was sure nowthis was no ordinaryliverymans had suspected it. -11 along, pnd his ^e- scnption 01 those farms—yes. she remem-bered he had said he was given all the workhe wanted. Instead of following the trendLatham had the girl lapsed againinto this more personal vein. Why shcdi probably she couldnt have told you. StillLatham zcas good to look u]3on; he wasmore than that, he was more than hand-some. He had what ones mother mio-htdescribe as just a good
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