Chapter 33 Chapter 18 Sweet Life in Green Valley

summer.There was not a cloud in the clear blue sky.The noon sun shines freely on the fiery fields. Sammy Skin, returning from a hunt with Neruto, wrapped in leather leggings, sat quietly smoking his pipe in the shade of a tree in front of the Green Valley house.A few meters away from him, almost at his feet, three children, aged 3, 5 and 6, play under the watchful eye of a reassuring-looking nanny.The nanny is no less than 6 feet tall and has a gray beard that puts firefighters to shame.Her name was Patrick Richardson, and Monsieur Jean's trust in him had turned him into a dry nanny. Patrick was getting old, but he was still mighty.This power, which he no longer used to punch the bear, was now the exclusive property of Jane and Sammy's sons.When you see a giant, you can see three children: one riding on his shoulders, one sitting on the palm of his hand as if sitting on a sofa, the thumb is the backrest, and the last one sometimes hides in his pocket, for which he Special pockets are sewn on the jacket.They could climb on him like a mountain, step on him, pull his beard and hair or poke his eyes with their fingers.Patrick foolishly messes around with the kids.He's a fun toy for little ones.

The clock was striking twelve when a young woman arrived on a fine horse.Sammy stood up and ran to help the woman on horseback dismount and took her in his arms as he had done in the parlor of the Northern Hotel.A little more, and Sammy would dance like he used to.But he hasn't danced since his belly (let's keep it down) has swelled a little.As for Jane Egerton, she was unchanged when she became Jane Skin.Still so short, so thin, and so pretty. "Dinner!" Sammy exclaimed happily. The three kids immediately attacked Patrick.The eldest son rides on his shoulders, the second son sits in the palm of his hand, and the younger son gets into his pocket.

"Patrick, are they obedient?" Jane asked. "Very well, Monsieur Jean," said the Irishman assuredly. Just as everyone was about to enter the house, another young woman appeared at the door.She was blond, and how could Edith Rado not be blond like Edith Edgerton?Edith still had her tool in her hand: the deft pen she knew so well. "Isn't Ben here yet?" Jane asked. "No," replied Edith, "he won't come before three o'clock." They went in and sat down at the table.The interior and exterior of the residence, everything retains the simple and plain style of the past.It's just a wing added to the old house for the newcomers to live in.

At lunch, everyone talked about everything.The words are calm and kind.There is nothing special about this day.This is the link in which a chain of happy, identical days continues to unfurl. An air of happiness pervades the tranquil interior. It's been a few years since I returned to Montreal after my Gold Volcano adventure.The love born under the icy Klondike skies did not change a bit, and Jane and Sammy, Edith and Ben each constituted a single person; each of them felt four hearts beating in his own chest. Sammy's worries were unfounded.With Edith's help, Sammy also learned to socialize in order to channel his wife's desires for action.Now that this has been done, he believes in the solidity of this relationship, and the birth of the children has strengthened this relationship.

Since the problem of money no longer exists, he uses money to expand the land.Now, he is the undisputed king of the entire region.Here Jane finds the necessary impetus for her activities.She is passionate about agricultural production on the vast land, and her warehouse is full of first-class machinery and equipment; she uses her ingenuity to constantly improve these equipment. Edith was the head of the family.She manages finances.She reviews, judges, and finally makes a decision, and everyone bows to her unshakable sanity.When Jane is driven by her imagination to take an adventurous path, her cousin is there to yell, "Broken neck!" and set things right.

Only Sammy can disrupt her management.The abominable landlord insisted on secretly returning most of the rent paid by the farmers under the pretext that he was too rich.Edith pretended to scold him a few words, indeed, they were really too rich. It didn't help that Sammy returned the rent, he couldn't spend the money Ben Rado made so quickly. The resources of the Sishilihe plot produced twenty times as much gold as the first harvest before being completely exhausted.Ben Lado didn't save any of this gold, but threw it all over the world.He kept coming back from those places, came back with ten times his bankroll, and set off again.

Backed by strong strength, engineers have realized their dreams.He does everything, he is interested in everything, and he devotes his life to intense work out of love.His day of becoming one of the billionaires is just around the corner, which will be one reason for him to work harder.He is as successful as ever.He was lucky enough to speculate in cotton, wool, sugar, and leather, and the money he earned was invested in various unrelated enterprises.Today, he owns copper and coal mines, rail lines in South America and the Balkans, oil wells in Texas and Romania, power plants, and many other businesses.Yesterday he created the Tin Trust and tomorrow the Nickel Trust.

Ben Rado would not have known what to do if Edith were not there to manage his estate among these many enterprises.He gets daily, hourly reports on how the business is doing.He doesn't have to worry about anything, he can create. Ben Rado is a happy man. However, this happy man is always absent, which is the only shortcoming in Sami's life.He has been running around the world, passing by like lightning, and disappearing again.Every time he came back, he kissed his wife affectionately, and she greeted him with a smile and let him go without complaint.Edith looked forward to that moment with her accustomed equanimity, and certain reliable omens told her that it was not far off.

Sammy Skin was less patient, and he had no qualms about berating Ben Rado.The latter, at first letting him speak, then became angry, had the effect of interrupting the moralizing. Sammy Skinn was the first to forgive Ben Rado when he set off on another round of excursions. "If Ben is ready to erupt all the time," Sammy used to say to Edith, "he's not to be blamed. Anyway, after a gold volcano in one's life, there's always something left something."