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U left it. I haven't got the heart somehow to change anything. We use up
a good many horses one way and another during a year, and when I get
squared around I'm going to start a herd there with one of the boys to
look after it. It was Rankin's idea too." "You expect to keep on
ranching, then?" "Why not?" "I thought, perhaps, now that you had plenty
to do with--You're young, you know." Ben looked out across the narrow
plat of turf deliberately. "Am I--young? Really, I'd never thought of it
in that way." The Englishman's feet again mounted the railing in an
attempt at nonchalance. "Well, usually a man at your age--" He laughed.
"If it were an old fellow like me--" "Mr. Baker, I thought you said you
really wished me to sit down and chat awhile?" Scotty colored. "Why,
certainly. What makes you think--" "Let's be natural then." Scotty
stiffened. His feet returned to the floor. "Blair, you forget--" But
somehow the sentence, bravely begun, halted. Few people in real life
acted a part with Benjamin Blair's blue eyes upon them. "Ben," he said
instead, "I'm an ass, and I beg your pardon. I'll call Florence." But
the visitor's hand restrained him. "Don't, please. She knows I am here.
I saw her a bit ago. Let her do as she wishes." He drew himself up in
the cane rocker. "You asked me a question. As far as I know I shall
ranch it always. It suits me, and it's the thing I can do best. Besides,
I like being with live things. The only trouble I have," he smiled
frankly, "is in selling stock after I raise them. I want to keep them as
long as they live, and put them in greener pastures when they get old.
It's the off season, but I brought a couple of car-loads along with me
to Chicago, to the stock-yards. I'll never do it again. It has to be
done, I know; people have to be fed; but I've watched those steers grow
from calves." Scotty search

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