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The landholder, the clergyman, the mill-owner, the mining-agent, have each an opportunity for making precious observations on different sections of the working-classes, but unfortunately their experience is too often not registered at all, or its results are too scattered to be available as a source of information and stimulus to the public mind generally.
The three thousand dollars was paid over less willingly, and the mill-owner was heartily glad that he had no other mills to redeem. Another threat to burn did not meet with as much success. Colonel Craven, of Ripley, who was taken prisoner, talked in so caustic a tone that Morgan asked where the colonel lived. "At Osgood," was the answer. "That little town on the railroad?"
And are you indebted to Mr. Roscoe in these things too? Everybody seems to need him here." "Well," said the mill-owner, laughing, "the whistle is my own. It's the sort of thing I would propose to blow my trumpet, as it were; but the electricity and the first experiments in it I owe to The Padre." "As I thought," she said, and turned to Roscoe.
It was an act of studied coolness that did not for a moment deceive, but it pleased. However, his next effrontery pleased the mill-owner still more. "Say, boys," Idepski observed quietly, as he opened the case and extracted a cigarette. "I guess I'm kind o' glad you left me this. But I don't figger you're out for loot, anyway." Then he glanced up at the man watching him so interestedly.
She must have care and close watching, and the only person within reach to give it was a girl whose gay light-heartedness and instability were well known in the town. Had she known what to do, she was too young and delicate for such a task. And should she take the infection what then? Would the wealthy mill-owner thus expose his youngest child, and, as every one knew, his idol?
But the mill-owner made no comment. "Huh!" he remarked, an enigmatic ejaculation that left all in doubt as to his feelings.
You cut four and a half million feet, a little over." A smile passed over the faces of the men attached to the sawmill. It was evident that a number of them must know about the trespass, and probably thought that Peavey Jo had been clever in getting away with it. The mill-owner laughed. "You t'ink I keep him in my pocket, hey?" he queried. "Four and a half million feet is big enough to see.
Lem Hallowell had spread the well-nigh incredible news, that Cynthia Wetherell was to marry the son of the mill-owner and railroad president of Brampton, and it seemed to Cynthia that every man and woman and child of the village was gathered at the store.
So that our mill-owner, after all, may have been a very kind-hearted and humane creature, in spite of his hovels and his views of life, and anxious to promote the highest interests of his employés. A hundred years ago, however, before the country became serious, the people, especially in London, really had a great many amusements, sports, and pastimes.
"Only here," he says, "I reckon the man I send will do all round; for Pike County has its claims as well as Boston." "What does that mean?" asked the mill-owner. "I reckon he means he don't want Pine Clearing to get too high-toned any more than he wants it too low down. He's mighty square in his averages is Sam."
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