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Demott thought about that."You know," he said, "Ithink he really did love this place as much as we did.He'd talk about gettinghis family to leave it to him as his part of the estate.Had it all figuredout on paper.It wasn't worth near as much as the share he'd get otherwise,but it was what he wanted.That's what he'd say.Prettiest place on earth, andhe'd make it better.Improve the stream where it was eroding.Plant out someponderosa seedlings where we had a fire kill.Keep the herd down to wherethere wouldn't be any more overgrazing.""I didn't see much sign of overgrazing now," Leaphorn said."Not now, you don't.But before Hal's daddy died he always wanted this placeto carry a lot more livestock than the grass could stand.He was alwaysputting the pressure on my dad, and after dad passed away, putting it on me.As a matter of fact he was threatening to fire me if I didn't get the incomeup to where he thought it ought to be.""You think he would have done it?""We never will know," Demott said."I wasn't going to overgraze this place,that's for damn sure.But just in time Breedlove had his big heart attack andpassed away." He chuckled."Elisa credited it to the power of my prayers."Leaphorn waited.And waited.But Demott was in no hurry to interrupt hismemories.A breeze came down the stream, cool and fresh, rustling the leavesbehind Leaphorn and humming the little song that breezes sing in the firs."It's a mighty pretty day," Demott said finally."But blink your eyes twiceand winter will be coming over the mountain.""You were going to tell me what went wrong with Hal," Leaphorn said."I got no license to practice psychiatry," Demott said.He hesitated just amoment, but Leaphorn knew it was coming.It was something Demott wanted totalk about-and probably had for a long, long time."Or theology, either," he continued."If that's the word for it.Anyway, youknow how the story goes in our Genesis.God created Adam and gave himabsolutely everything he could want, to see if he could handle it and still beobedient and do the right thing.He couldn't.So he fell from grace."Demott glanced at Leaphorn to see if he was following."Got kicked out of paradise," Demott said."Sure," Leaphorn said."I remember it." It wasn't quite the way he'd alwaysheard it, but he could see the point Demott might make with his version."Old Breedlove put Hal in paradise," Demott said."Gave him everything.Prepschool with the other rich kids, Dartmouth with the children of the rulingclass-absolutely the very goddamn best that you can buy with money.If I was apreacher I'd say Hal's daddy spent a ton of money teaching his boy to worshipMammon-however you pronounce that.Anyway, it means making a god out of thingsyou can buy." He paused, gave Leaphorn a questioning glance."We have some of the same philosophy in our own Genesis story," Leaphorn said."First Man calls evil `the way to make money.' Besides, I took a comparativereligion course when I was a student at Arizona State.Made an A in it.""Okay," Demott said."Sorry.Anyway, when Hal was about a senior or so he flewPage 81 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlinto Mancos one summer in his own little airplane.Wanted us to grade out alanding strip for it near the house.I figured out how much it would cost, buthis daddy wouldn't come up with the money.They got into a big argument overit.Hal had already been arguing with him about taking better care of thisplace, putting money in instead of taking it all out.I think it was aboutthen that the old man got pissed off.He decided he'd give Hal the ranch andnothing else and let him see if he could live off it.""Figuring he couldn't?""Yep," Hal said."And of course the old man was right.Anyhow Breedlove easedup on the pressure for profits some and I got to put in a lot of fencing weneeded to protect a couple of the sensitive pastures and get some equipment inthere for some erosion control along the Cache.Elisa and Hal got marriedafter that.Everything going smooth.But that didn't last long.Hal took Elisato Europe.Decided he just had to have himself a Ferrari.Great car for ourkind of roads.But he bought it.And other stuff.Borrowed money.Before longwe weren't bringing in enough from selling our surplus hay and the beef tocover his expenses.So he went to see the old man."At this point Demott's voice was thickening.He paused, rubbed his shirtsleeveacross his forehead."Warm for this time of year," he said."Yeah," Leaphorn said, thinking it was a cool, dry sixty degrees or so evenwith the breeze gone."Anyway, he came back empty.Hal didn't have much to say but I believe theymust have had a big family fight.I know for sure he tried to borrow fromGeorge-that's George Shaw, his cousin who used to come out and climb withus-and George must have turned him down, too.I think the family must havetold him they were going ahead with the moly strip mine deal, and to hell withhim.""But they didn't," Leaphorn said."Why not?""I think it was because the old man had his heart attack a little bit afterthat.When he passed away it hung everything up in probate court for a while.This ranch was in trust for Hal.He didn't get it until he turned thirty, butof course the family didn't control it anymore.That's sort of where it stoodfor a while."Demott paused.He inspected his newly washed hand.Leaphorn was thinking, too,about this friction between Hal and his family and what it might imply."When I had my visit with Mrs.Rivera at the bank," Leaphorn said, "she toldme things were starting to brew on the moly mine development again just beforeHal disappeared.But this time she thought it was going to be a deal with adifferent mining company.She didn't think the family corporation wasinvolved."Demott lost interest in his hand."She tell you that?""That's what she said.She said a Denver bank was involved in the dealsomehow.It was way too big an operation for her little bank to handle themoney end of it.""With Mrs.Rivera in business we don't really need a newspaper around here,"Demott said.Page 82 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"So I was thinking that if the family told Hal they were going to run rightover him, maybe he decided he'd screw them instead.He'd make his own deal andcut them out.""I think that's probably about the way it was," Demott said."I know hislawyer told him all he had to do was slow things down in court long enough toget to his birthday.Then he'd have clear title and he could do what hewanted.That's what Elisa wanted him to do.But Hal was a fella who just couldnot wait.There were things he wanted to buy.Things he wanted to do.Placeshe hadn't seen yet.And he'd borrowed a lot of money he had to pay back."Demott produced a bitter-sounding laugh."Elisa didn't know about that.Shedidn't know he could use the ranch as collateral when he didn't own it yet.Came as quite a shock [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlwith the old silver spoon." Demott thought about that."You know," he said, "Ithink he really did love this place as much as we did.He'd talk about gettinghis family to leave it to him as his part of the estate.Had it all figuredout on paper.It wasn't worth near as much as the share he'd get otherwise,but it was what he wanted.That's what he'd say.Prettiest place on earth, andhe'd make it better.Improve the stream where it was eroding.Plant out someponderosa seedlings where we had a fire kill.Keep the herd down to wherethere wouldn't be any more overgrazing.""I didn't see much sign of overgrazing now," Leaphorn said."Not now, you don't.But before Hal's daddy died he always wanted this placeto carry a lot more livestock than the grass could stand.He was alwaysputting the pressure on my dad, and after dad passed away, putting it on me.As a matter of fact he was threatening to fire me if I didn't get the incomeup to where he thought it ought to be.""You think he would have done it?""We never will know," Demott said."I wasn't going to overgraze this place,that's for damn sure.But just in time Breedlove had his big heart attack andpassed away." He chuckled."Elisa credited it to the power of my prayers."Leaphorn waited.And waited.But Demott was in no hurry to interrupt hismemories.A breeze came down the stream, cool and fresh, rustling the leavesbehind Leaphorn and humming the little song that breezes sing in the firs."It's a mighty pretty day," Demott said finally."But blink your eyes twiceand winter will be coming over the mountain.""You were going to tell me what went wrong with Hal," Leaphorn said."I got no license to practice psychiatry," Demott said.He hesitated just amoment, but Leaphorn knew it was coming.It was something Demott wanted totalk about-and probably had for a long, long time."Or theology, either," he continued."If that's the word for it.Anyway, youknow how the story goes in our Genesis.God created Adam and gave himabsolutely everything he could want, to see if he could handle it and still beobedient and do the right thing.He couldn't.So he fell from grace."Demott glanced at Leaphorn to see if he was following."Got kicked out of paradise," Demott said."Sure," Leaphorn said."I remember it." It wasn't quite the way he'd alwaysheard it, but he could see the point Demott might make with his version."Old Breedlove put Hal in paradise," Demott said."Gave him everything.Prepschool with the other rich kids, Dartmouth with the children of the rulingclass-absolutely the very goddamn best that you can buy with money.If I was apreacher I'd say Hal's daddy spent a ton of money teaching his boy to worshipMammon-however you pronounce that.Anyway, it means making a god out of thingsyou can buy." He paused, gave Leaphorn a questioning glance."We have some of the same philosophy in our own Genesis story," Leaphorn said."First Man calls evil `the way to make money.' Besides, I took a comparativereligion course when I was a student at Arizona State.Made an A in it.""Okay," Demott said."Sorry.Anyway, when Hal was about a senior or so he flewPage 81 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlinto Mancos one summer in his own little airplane.Wanted us to grade out alanding strip for it near the house.I figured out how much it would cost, buthis daddy wouldn't come up with the money.They got into a big argument overit.Hal had already been arguing with him about taking better care of thisplace, putting money in instead of taking it all out.I think it was aboutthen that the old man got pissed off.He decided he'd give Hal the ranch andnothing else and let him see if he could live off it.""Figuring he couldn't?""Yep," Hal said."And of course the old man was right.Anyhow Breedlove easedup on the pressure for profits some and I got to put in a lot of fencing weneeded to protect a couple of the sensitive pastures and get some equipment inthere for some erosion control along the Cache.Elisa and Hal got marriedafter that.Everything going smooth.But that didn't last long.Hal took Elisato Europe.Decided he just had to have himself a Ferrari.Great car for ourkind of roads.But he bought it.And other stuff.Borrowed money.Before longwe weren't bringing in enough from selling our surplus hay and the beef tocover his expenses.So he went to see the old man."At this point Demott's voice was thickening.He paused, rubbed his shirtsleeveacross his forehead."Warm for this time of year," he said."Yeah," Leaphorn said, thinking it was a cool, dry sixty degrees or so evenwith the breeze gone."Anyway, he came back empty.Hal didn't have much to say but I believe theymust have had a big family fight.I know for sure he tried to borrow fromGeorge-that's George Shaw, his cousin who used to come out and climb withus-and George must have turned him down, too.I think the family must havetold him they were going ahead with the moly strip mine deal, and to hell withhim.""But they didn't," Leaphorn said."Why not?""I think it was because the old man had his heart attack a little bit afterthat.When he passed away it hung everything up in probate court for a while.This ranch was in trust for Hal.He didn't get it until he turned thirty, butof course the family didn't control it anymore.That's sort of where it stoodfor a while."Demott paused.He inspected his newly washed hand.Leaphorn was thinking, too,about this friction between Hal and his family and what it might imply."When I had my visit with Mrs.Rivera at the bank," Leaphorn said, "she toldme things were starting to brew on the moly mine development again just beforeHal disappeared.But this time she thought it was going to be a deal with adifferent mining company.She didn't think the family corporation wasinvolved."Demott lost interest in his hand."She tell you that?""That's what she said.She said a Denver bank was involved in the dealsomehow.It was way too big an operation for her little bank to handle themoney end of it.""With Mrs.Rivera in business we don't really need a newspaper around here,"Demott said.Page 82 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"So I was thinking that if the family told Hal they were going to run rightover him, maybe he decided he'd screw them instead.He'd make his own deal andcut them out.""I think that's probably about the way it was," Demott said."I know hislawyer told him all he had to do was slow things down in court long enough toget to his birthday.Then he'd have clear title and he could do what hewanted.That's what Elisa wanted him to do.But Hal was a fella who just couldnot wait.There were things he wanted to buy.Things he wanted to do.Placeshe hadn't seen yet.And he'd borrowed a lot of money he had to pay back."Demott produced a bitter-sounding laugh."Elisa didn't know about that.Shedidn't know he could use the ranch as collateral when he didn't own it yet.Came as quite a shock [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]