For two weeks we were all together 
at the only hotel at Cartersville, a ham- 
let of perhaps thirty souls. It took 
only two weeks to wreck the company. 
The mine was a mile and a half away, 
over a very up-and-down mountain 
road which on the first day the fat 
woman and I walked with our hus- 
bands, and which Mrs. Frisco and her 
husband had travelled in Mrs. Kansas’ 
phaeton — the result of a little way Mrs. 
Frisco had of getting the best. 
Three days of this calm appropria- 
tion of her carriage while she walked 
ruffed Mrs. Kansas’ temper. When 
she heard a rumour that Mrs. Frisco 
had stated disdainfully to the landlady 
that there could be no thought of rec- 
ognising Mrs. Kansas socially, but that 
she must be tolerated because of her 
money in the enterprise, her politeness 
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