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At eleven sharp, Warde with Thayer, the Idaho buyer, to look over the Shropshire ra departed with Wardman to work up his notes, Forrest was left alone in the office From a wire tray of unfinished business--one of roups of five--he drew a pa cholera and proceeded to scan it

Five feet, ten inches in height, weighing a clean-hty pounds, Dick Forrest was anything but insignificant for a forty years' old e, over-arched by bone of brow, and lashes and broere dark The hair, above an ordinary forehead, was light brown to chestnut Under the forehead, the cheeks showed high-boned, with underneath the slight hollows that necessarily acco without h and proht or prominent, the chin square without harshness and uncleft, and the ree that did not hide the firmness to which the lips could set on due provocation The skin was sh, midway between eyebrows and hair, the tan of forehead faded in advertisement of the rim of the Baden Powell interposed between hihter lurked in the mouth corners and eye-corners, and there were cheek lines about the hter Equally strong, however, every line of the face that s carried a notice of surety Dick Forrest was sure-- sure, when his hand reached out for any object on his desk, that the hand would straightly attain the object without a fumble or a miss of a fraction of an inch; sure, when his brain leaped the high places of the hog cholera text, that it was notdesk-chair to the balanced back-head of him; sure, in heart and brain, of life and work, of all he possessed, and of himself

He had reason to be sure Body, brain, and career were long-proven sure A rich man's son, he had not played ducks and drakes with his father's one back to the land and made such a success as to put his name on the lips of breeders wherever breeders met and talked He was the owner, without encumbrance, of two hundred and fifty thousand acres of land--land that varied in value from a thousand dollars an acre to a hundred dollars, that varied from a hundred dollars to ten cents an acre, and that, in stretches, was not worth a penny an acre The improvements on that quarter of a e- drained tule swahts, froaspingly ungraspable to the country-side