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As old Andrew McPhail put it: "Link's there, an' he knows the bank an' books, an' just how things stand"; and so when he sold his hogs he put the whole sum -over fifteen hundred dollars into the bank. The McIlvaines and the Binghams did the same, and the bank was at once firmly established among the farmers. Only two people held out against Sanford, old Freeme Cole and Mrs.
He had no bad habits beyond smoking. He was genial, companionable, and especially ready to help when sickness came. When old Freeme Cole got down with delirium tremens that winter, Sanford was one of the most heroic of nurses, and the service was so clearly disinterested and maguanimous that everyone spoke of it. His wife and he were included in every dance or picnic; for Mrs.
Bingham, Lincoln's mother; but they didn't count, for Freeme hadn't a cent, and Mrs. Bingham was too unreasoning in her opposition. She could only say: "I don't like him, that's all. I knowed a man back in New York that curled his mustaches just that way, an' he wa'n't no earthiy good." It might have been said by a cynic that Banker Sanford had all the virtues of a defaulting bank cashier.
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