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M of two hundred thousand dollars for such title to the tract as could
be given. He did not add that he had personally offered to guarantee the
title. That was an unnecessary bit of information. You may perhaps
imagine the happiness this announcement gave Joe and Ethel. They could
scarcely believe the good news was true, even when the kindly old
gentleman, with tears in his eyes, congratulated the young couple on the
fortune in store for them. The Major followed with a happy speech of
felicitation, and then the three girls hugged the little school teacher
rapturously and told her how glad they were. "I think, sir," said Joe,
striving to curb his elation, "that it will be better in the end for us
to accept the royalty. Don't you?" "I do, indeed, my boy," was the
reply. "For if our people make an offer for the land of two hundred
thousand you may rest a