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Good credit was the prime necessity, and that Mr. Hinckley certainly had. So the celebrated Grain Belt Trust Company was begun a name about which such mighty interests were to cluster, that I know I should have shrunk from the responsibility had I known what a gigantic thing we were creating. As the days wore on, Captain Tolliver's dementia spread and raged virulently.
Miss Jenny Ann had been trying to beguile the tedium of the stormy days by interesting the girls in the lessons they would even now have been studying at Miss Tolliver's school if their houseboat had not sailed away from her anchorage. All the old school books had been brought up from the "Merry Maid." At first the girls were much pleased with Miss Jenny Ann's idea.
The Angus Falls railway extension was won only by strenuous endeavor. Captain Tolliver's interviews with General Lattimore, in which he was so ruthlessly "turned down," he always regarded as a sort of creative agony, marking the origin of the roundhouse and machine-shops, and our connection with the great Halliday railway system of which it made us a part.
There lay a silence in the room while the two women stared into each other's souls with startled eyes. Swallowing hard, Miss Smith spoke. "When I thought the endowment sure, I mortgaged the school in order to buy Tolliver's land. The endowment failed, as you know, because perhaps I was too stubborn." But Zora's eyes snapped "No!" and Miss Smith continued: "I borrowed ten thousand dollars.
The four girls were to spend the night in Baltimore with a friend of Miss Tolliver's, who kept a boarding-place. As they were in the habit of staying with Miss Rice when they came into Baltimore to do their shopping, Miss Tolliver had, for once, after many instructions, permitted the girls to go into town without a chaperon.
It did not look as though they were likely to return to Miss Tolliver's in the immediate future. "A penny for your thoughts, girls," remarked Miss Jenny Ann suddenly. "Eleanor, dear, I am going to begin with you. We are all in the dumps to-night. Perhaps it will cheer us up to tell one another our thoughts." Eleanor shook her head.
A sound came from Houck's throat like a snarl. "Are you tryin' to tell me that Pete Tolliver's girl is too good for me? Is that where you're driftin'?" "Now don't you get mad, Jake," the older man pleaded. "These here are different times. I don't want my June mixed up with with them Brown's Park days an' all." "Meanin' me?"
Tolliver's trembling grew. He mumbled incoherently: "But I didn't murder all those people " "Report to division headquarters," the engineer advised. "They'll send you help to-morrow." He hurried down the stairs. After a moment the long train pulled out, filled with warm, comfortable people. The child, his sobbing at an end, watched it curiously. Tolliver tried to stop his shaking.
Miss Dixland, I congratulate you. You've got a fine, promisin' young man. "That, to Nate's notion, was about the biggest lie he ever told, but Olivia swallered it for gospel. She seemed to thaw toward Scudder a little mite, but 'twa'n't at a permanent melt, by no means. "'Thank you, Mr. Scudder, says she, still pretty frosty. 'I am full aware of Mr. Tolliver's merits.
Tolliver stooped, grasping the man's shoulders. In each fist he clenched bunches of wet cloth. In a sort of desperation he commenced to shake the bundled figure. "You tell me where you been " Joe leered. "Joe! You got to tell me where you been." The pounding took Tolliver's strength.
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