human
We will do all we can to keep things going,
gpt
You bet we will!
human
There is a big thing Mr. Carter has been working on for some time, a competitive design for a country club in North Carolina. It is about done and I will do my best to finish it as I think he would want it, and get it off. Did he leave power of attorney with any one? You see, Mr. Carter has two accounts, in different banks, one, his personal account, and one, his business one.
gpt
Yes, Dr. Wright, his physician, was given power of attorney. There was no time to let any of you know as it was important to have Father kept very quiet, with no excitement. Dr. Wright will come in to see you on Monday, I feel sure. He does not get back from New York until to-night.
human
More work and responsibility for the doctor,
gpt
More power over us than we dreamed even,
human
We want to rent our house, furnished, for the summer, giving possession immediately, or almost immediately, continued Douglas;
gpt
I know of some one right now, eagerly put in Dick, the promoted office boy.
human
It is a family who have been driven from Paris by the war. They have been living there for years--got oodlums of money and no place to spend it now, poor things! They want a furnished house for six months with privilege of renewing the lease for a year.
gpt
Oh, please, could you send them to me or me to them right off?
human
Yes, Miss Carter, that's easy! If you go home, I'll have the folks up there in an hour.
gpt
How kind you are!
human
Not a bit of it! I'm so glad I happened to know about them--and now you will be saved an agent's fee.
gpt
How much do you think we should ask for our house?
human
Well, that house is as good a one as there is in Richmond for its size, said Mr. Lane, the elder.
gpt
I know, because I helped on it. There is not one piece of defective material in the whole building. Even the nails were inspected. If it had been on Franklin Street, I'd say one hundred a month, unfurnished, with all the baths it has in it; but since it is not on Franklin, I believe one hundred, furnished, would be a fair price.
human
Oh, wouldn't that be fine, Douglas? spoke Helen for the first time. She had been very quiet while these business conferences had been going on.
gpt
That will be a whole lot of money. Now we need not feel so poverty stricken.
human
Certainly families do live on less, and the young man smiled.
gpt
I think Mr. Carter usually takes out about six hundred a month for his household expenses--of course, that's not counting when he buys a car. I know it is none of my business, but I am very much interested to know what you young ladies are going to do with yourselves. If I can be of any assistance, you must call on me.
human
Oh, we've got the grandest scheme! I thought of it myself, so I am vastly proud of it. We are going up to Albemarle County, where Father owns a tract of land right on the side of a mountain, and there we are going to spend the summer and take boarders and expect to make a whole lot of money.
gpt
Take boarders? Is there a house there? I understood from Mr. Carter that it was unimproved property.
human
So it is. That is the beauty of it. We intend to camp and all the boarders will camp, too.