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Sherwood was at the station to meet the train when it finally steamed into Tillbury. Owneyville, which the girls knew to be Mr. Bulson's home town, was a station beyond Tillbury, and a much smaller town. The fat man had to change cars, so it was not surprising that he stepped down upon the Tillbury platform just as Nan ran into her father's arms. "Oh, Papa Sherwood!" Nan almost sobbed.
Bulson's money in a drunken spree, and while intoxicated had been robbed of the watch. So, in the end, the quarrelsome fat man, who had so maligned Mr. Sherwood and caused him so much trouble, recovered nothing not even his lost temper. "Which must be a good thing," was Bess Harley's comment. "For if I had a temper like his, I'd want to lose it and for good and all!"
A hull trainful o' folks. Wall!" "And oh, Mr. Snubbins!" said Nan Sherwood, "you have milk in those cans, haven't you?" "Sure have, Miss." "Oh, Mr. Carter!" called Nan, running back into the forward car; "here's a man with fresh milk. You don't have to take Mr. Bulson's." "What's that?" demanded the baggage-man, Jim, in surprise. "Where'd he get it?
"Fresh milk will be a whole lot better for these kiddies we've got in the smoker than condensed milk. Just the same," he added, "I shall hold on to Bulson's shipment." "What'll I take for this milk, mister?" repeated Snubbins, cautiously. "Wall, I dunno. I'spect the price has gone up some, because o' the roads being blocked." "That will do that will do," Mr. Carter hastened to say.
The railroad and the sleeping car company, of course, refused to acknowledge responsibility for Mr. Bulson's valuables. Nor on mere suspicion could Mr. Bulson get a justice in Tillbury to issue a warrant for Mr. Sherwood. But Ravell Bulson had been to the Sherwood cottage on Amity Street, and had talked very harshly. Besides, the fat man had in public loudly accused his victim of being dishonest.
Sherwood that they would delay the signing of any final contract until Bulson's accusation was refuted. Almost all of Mrs. Sherwood's ready money, received through the Scotch courts, had been invested in the new automobile showroom and garage. Nan could not bring herself to speak of the sudden turn her father's difficulties had taken.
Bulson's charge would injure his usefulness to the corporation he was about to represent. To sue Bulson for slander would merely give wider circulation to the story the fat man had originated. Ravell Bulson was a traveling man and was not often in Tillbury that was one good thing.
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