Bartlett, after a glance at the papers, began to
chuckle.
AndBangs is a stubborn mule, but hes honest too. I
shouldnt think anybodyd be sorry to wake up fromthat kind of dream. Ebenezer likes
to have me read to him; dont you, Ebenezer? Banks assured him that all connected
with the deed was going well. Bartlett, surely you dont mean to suggest that
thosenotes are not good?
Is thereamongst em a list of the paper his Ostable
concern is carryin?
And in his office next morning he did that very
thing. So,too, as it happened, did Captain Abijah. Trent assured me itwas a very
successful corporation.
See here, youngster, he went on, Trent and his gang
aint boughtyou body and soul, have they? Banks went on, condensing as much as
possible.
Well, sir, I wish you could have seen Jotham when
he realizedtwas the judge. Funny, aint it, how womenfolk cant go nowhereswithout
cartin two, three trunks.
Id be all right if I had what Id ought to haveto
eat. She leaned across the seat and extended her hand.
Truman peered at him through her
eyeglasses.
A small crowd of interested youths andboys gathered
about the car, to stare and point and exclaim. Davidson was, so his friend had told
him, a prominent business manin Colesburg. They sent you down here to palaver me
into doin justthat, didnt they?
Through the glass of the door she was looking at
him. Captain Abijah broke out with a joyful Ha, Ha!
In vain did Banks try to convince himself
thatTrents boarding that train was a mere coincidence. He went up to New Bedford to
some kind of meetin or other.