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He said he had a good many things to attend to as he was leaving in the morning." "E-um'm!" said David incredulously. "I guess 't won't take him long to close up his matters. Did he leave ev'rything in good shape? Cash all right, an' so on?" "I think so," said John. "The cash is right I am sure." "How 'bout the books?"
"E-um'm!" said David, and, after a moment, in a sort of confidential tone, "Do you like goin' to church?" he asked. "Well," said John, "that depends yes, I think I do. I think it is the proper thing," he concluded weakly. "Depends some on how a feller's ben brought up, don't ye think so?" said David. "I should think it very likely," John assented, struggling manfully with a yawn.
"I asked him to let me have the balance sheets, and he said that you must have them, but that he would come in in the morning and well, what he said was that he would see me in the morning, and, as he put it, look after any little last thing." "E-um'm!" David grunted. "He won't do no such a thing. We've seen the last of him, you bet, an' a good riddance.
"Willis'll give two hunderd fer the sorr'l colt," said the incomer, whom John recognized as one of the loungers in the Eagle bar the night of his arrival. "E-um'm!" said David. "Was he speakin' of any pertic'ler colt, or sorril colts in gen'ral? I hain't got the only one the' is, I s'pose." Dick merely laughed.
He'll take the nine o'clock to-night, that's what he'll do. Drawed his pay, I guess, didn't he?" "He said he was to be paid for this month," answered John, "and took sixty dollars. Was that right?" "Yes," said David, nodding his head absently. "What was it he said about them statements?" he inquired after a moment. "He said he guessed you must have them." "E-um'm!" was David's comment.
He had an instinctive feeling that Harum combined acuteness and suspiciousness to a very large degree, and he had also a feeling that the old man's confidence, once gained, would not be easily shaken. So he told his hearer so much of his history as he thought pertinent, and David listened without interruption or comment, save an occasional "E-um'm." "And here I am," John remarked in conclusion.
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