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What did I say just now, Kiddie? Thar ain't no trippin' you up or catchin' you nappin'." "I dunno if you're aware of it, Rube," resumed Kiddie, "but for the past two or three minutes I've had the corner of my eye on a canoe that's comin' this way down the lake. Who's at the paddle? 'Tain't Gideon's way of paddlin'. 'Tain't Abe Harum. Who d'ye reckon it c'n be?" Rube watched the approaching canoe.
Euston had presented him to a few of the people in his flock; but beyond the point of mere politeness he had made no response, mainly from indifference, but to a degree because of a suspicion that his connection with Mr. Harum would not, to say the least, enhance his position in the minds of certain of the people of Homeville.
Cullom looked from David to Mrs. Bixbee, whose face was suffused. "Tell her," said David, with a grin. "I wish you'd shet up," she exclaimed. "I sha'n't do nothin' of the sort." "Ne' mind," said David cheerfully, "I'll tell ye, Mis' Cullom." "Dave Harum!" expostulated Mrs. Bixbee, but he proceeded without heed of her protest.
Since the whooping-cough and measles of childhood the junior partner of Harum & Company had never to his recollection had a day's illness in his life, and he fought the attack which came upon him about the first week in December with a sort of incredulous disgust, until one morning when he did not appear at breakfast.
Harum, "I couldn't 'a' done it slicker myself, an' I don't know nobody that could." "Guess you must 'a' felt a little ticklish yourself," said Dick sympathetically, laughing as usual. "Wa'al, you better believe," declared the other. "The' was 'bout half a minute when I'd have sold out mighty cheap, an' took a promise fer the money.
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.
You'll do the work about 's you're doin' now, an' you'll draw the same sal'ry; an' after that's paid we'll go snucks on anythin' that's left that is," added David with a chuckle, "if you feel that you c'n stan' it in Homeville." "I wish you was married to one of our Homeville girls, though," declared Mr. Harum later on as they drove homeward.
"David Harum!" she cried, "I ain't within ten year " "Hold on," he protested, "don't throw that teacup. I didn't say you was, I only said you was goin' on an' about them people over to Peeble, they've got the name of the 'narrer Babtists' because they're so narrer in their views that fourteen on 'em c'n sit, side an' side, in a buggy."
Harum, "I meant the church folks in gen'ral, an' it'll come 'round in a natur'l sort of way not like bein' took 'round by Mr. Euston as if you'd ast him to.
"I got this yesterday," he said. "It is from an old acquaintance of mine by the name of Harum, who lives in Homeville, Freeland County. He is a sort of a banker there, and has written me to recommend some one to take the place of his manager or cashier whom he is sending away.
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