Oh , he did n't growl at the weather when it was fine , and he was mostly real pleasant and agreeable when everything went right . But he drank a good deal , and there were some nasty stories told of him and a girl down at the fishing village . He was n't fit for Leslie to wipe her feet on , that 's the long and short of it . And he was a Methodist ! But he was clean mad about her -- because of her good looks in the first place , and because she would n't have anything to say to him in the second . He vowed he 'd have her -- and he got her ! '' `` How did he bring it about ? '' `` Oh , it was an iniquitous thing ! I 'll never forgive Rose West . You see , dearie , Abner Moore held the mortgage on the West farm , and the interest was overdue some years , and Dick just went and told Mrs. West that if Leslie would n't marry him he 'd get his father to foreclose the mortgage . Rose carried on terrible -- fainted and wept , and pleaded with Leslie not to let her be turned out of her home . She said it would break her heart to leave the home she 'd come to as a bride . I would n't have blamed her for feeling dreadful bad over it -- but you would n't have thought she 'd be so selfish as to sacrifice her own flesh and blood because of it , would you ? Well , she was . `` And Leslie gave in -- she loved her mother so much she would have done anything to save her pain . She married Dick Moore . None of us knew why at the time . It was n't till long afterward that I found out how her mother had worried her into it . I was sure there was something wrong , though , because I knew how she had snubbed him time and again , and it was n't like Leslie to turn face -- about like that . Besides , I knew that Dick Moore was n't the kind of man Leslie could ever fancy , in spite of his good looks and dashing ways .
Of course , there was no wedding , but Rose asked me to go and see them XXXXX .
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