igan, and the
family business man was able to sell the property for seven hundred
thousand dollars. He did this so promptly that I ventured to ask him if
delay might not have brought a greater price. 'Well', he said, 'I don't
know. You must seize these things. Blake and Beverly might have got
tired waiting."

"'Blake and Beverly!' I exclaimed 'So they made the purchase. It Mr.
Beverly back?'"

"'Just back. To tell the truth I don't believe they're finding so much
copper as they hoped.'"

"This turned out to be true. And I am not sure that the business man
had not known it all the while. 'We looked over the property pretty
thoroughly at the time of the Tamarack excitement,' he said. And in
a few days more, in fact, it was generally known that this land had
returned to its old state of not quite paying the taxes."

"Then I paid my visit to Mr. Beverly, but with no cowhide. 'Mr.
Beverly,' said I, 'I want to announce to you my engagement to Miss Ethel
Lansing, whose Michigan copper land you have lately acquired. I hope
that you bought some for your mother.'"

"Those," concluded Mr. Richard Field, "are the circumstances attending
my engagement which I felt might interest you. And now, Ethel, tell your
story, if they'll listen."

"Richard," said Ethel, "that is the story I was going to tell."

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