The young ladies and the tourists were the
sole occupants of the sitting-room. The lawyer went over to Miss Du
Plessis, and left his friend perforce to talk to Miss Carmichael.
"I hear, Miss Du Plessis, that you own a farm and valuable mineral
land," said Coristine.
"Did Messrs. Tylor, Woodruff and White give you that information?" she
asked in return.
"No, indeed; do you know my firm?"
"Very well, seeing I have been two years in Mr. Tylor's office."
"Two years in Tylor's office, and me not know it?"
"You do not seem to take much interest in feminine stenographers and
typewriters."
"No, I don't, that's a fact; but if I had known that it was you who were
one, it would have been a different thing."
"Now, Mr. Coristine, please make no compliments of doubtful sincerity."
"I never was more sincere in my life. But you haven't answered me about
the land."
"Well, I will answer you; I have no farm or valuable minerals, but my
father left me two hundred acres of water and wild land near what's
called the Lake Settlement, which he bought when Honoria married Mr.
Carruthers and took up her residence here.
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