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I don't say positive that we kin, I says, 'but mebbe, mebbe. So that afternoon I sent over to the county seat an' got a description an' had a second morgidge drawed up fer two hundred dollars, an' Mis' Cullom signed it mighty quick.
The second year he was jest gettin' goin', an' the next year he lost a hoss jest as he was cal'latin' to pay, an' the next year the grasshoppers smote him, 'n so on; an' the outcome was that at the end of five years, when the morgidge had one year to run, Charley'd paid one year, an' she'd paid one, an' she stood to owe three years' int'rist.
Wa'al, of course I'd known that Swinney had a morgidge because it was a matter of record, an' I knowed him well enough to give a guess what his game was goin' to be, an' more'n that I'd had my eye on that piece an' parcel an' I figured that he wa'n't any likelier a citizen 'n I was."
"'Wa'al, I says, 'I guess I see about how the land lays, an' I reckon you ain't fur out about the morgidge bein' at the bottom on't, an' the' ain't no way it c'd 'a' leaked out 'ceptin' through that dum'd chuckle-head of a Timson. But this is the way it looks to me you hain't heard nothin' in the village, have ye? I says. "'No, he says. 'Not yit, he says.
"Oh, yes," said David, "old Billy's father left him some consid'able pers'nal, but after that was gone he went into the morgidge bus'nis as I tell ye. He lived mostly up to Syrchester and around, an' when he got married he bought a place in Syrchester and lived there till Billy P. was about twelve or thirteen year old, an' he was about fifty.
'Somebody 's leaked, he says, 'an' they've heard of that morgidge, an' I'm in a putty scrape, he says. "'H'm'm, I says, 'what makes ye think so? "'Can't be nothin' else, he says; 'I've dealt with them people fer years an' never ast fer nothin' but what I got it, an' now to have 'em round up on me like this, it can't be nothin' but what they've got wind o' that chattel morgidge, he says.
I had the morgidge made one day after date, 'cause, as I said to her, it was in the nature of a temp'rary loan, but she was so tickled she'd have signed most anythin' at that pertic'ler time. 'Now, I says to her, 'you go an' settle with old Step-an'-fetch-it, but don't you say a word where you got the money, I says.
"Have you read what's written above the heading of it?" he asked. "No; what is it, J'rome?" Ozias put on his spectacles; Jerome pointed to a crabbed line above the heading of the mortgage deed. "I giv as present the forth part of my proputty, this morgidge to Ozier Lamm. "Simon Basset." "He's took crazy!" cried Ozias, staring wildly at it.
After gazing at Mr. Parrott for a little time the Cap'n and Hiram searched each the other's face with much interest. It was apparent that perfect confidence did not exist between them on some matters that were to the fore just then. "Yours," said Mr. Parrott, jerking a stiff nod to the Cap'n, "is a morgidge on house and stable and land.
"Wa'al, things went on fer a while, till I made up my mind that I ought to relieve Swinney of some of his anxieties about worldly bus'nis, an' I dropped in on him one mornin' an' passed the time o' day, an' after we'd eased up our minds on the subjects of each other's health an' such like I says, 'You hold a morgidge on the Widder Cullom's place, don't ye? Of course he couldn't say nothin' but 'yes. 'Does she keep up the int'rist all right? I says.
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