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Updated: June 7, 2025
To begin with, we were early startled by the rumour that Hiram Nutt, theretofore deemed unconquerable, had been disastrously defeated at checkers in Willoughby's grocery and that by Watty the tailor, of all men in Radville. The rumour was confirmed by eleven in the forenoon, and in itself should have provided us with a nine days' wonder.
Tracey had not been added to the staff, although business was booming, and Saturday night is, as everyone who has lived in a Radville knows, the busiest of the week; all the stores keep open late on Saturday some as late as eleven and frequently take in half the week's income between noon and the closing hour.
But his innate honesty told him she was right, in a way; she had hit upon his weakest point. He was in Radville to "show off," as she would have said, to make an impression and ... to reap the reward thereof. The way she spoke was ludicrous, but what she said was mostly plain truth. He nodded submissively. "A pretty good guess at that," he acknowledged candidly.
Of course I'd heard a rumour of what had happened 'most everyone in town had and how Roland and his friend, Mr. Burnham, had sort of fallen out on the way from the Bigelow House to the train; but no one knew anything definite, and I wanted to get "the rights of it," as Radville says.
As business increased and the stock turned itself over at a profit, Duncan began to branch out, to make improvements and introduce new lines of goods. He it was who inoculated Radville with the habit of buying manufactured candies. Up to the time of his advent, we had been accustomed to and content with home-made taffies and fudges and were, I've no doubt, vastly better off on that account.
I see nothing going on in the world outside of Radville more important than our daily life. Too long I have lived away from it, a stranger in strange lands, not to appreciate its relative significance in the scheme of things. Thus I get a perspective upon the place, to Will and his ilk denied.
Something in the young man's manner seemed to tickle the colonel; Duncan could have sworn that the eyes were twinkling beneath the savagely knitted brows. "Well, you must understand I'm in business here in Radville a partner in a growing and prospering concern ah doing very well, in point of fact." "Yes?" "But we haven't any spare capital; in fact, we haven't got any capital worth mentioning.
I suspect she didn't get along with the class of young women with whom she was thrown at school, and I'm pretty certain she was uneasy about Nat all the time she was so far away from him. Anyway, she elected to remain in Radville and keep the young man dancing attendance on her day in and out.
When the Civil War broke out the old Colonel up there" I gestured vaguely in the general direction of the Bohun mansion "couldn't keep out of it, and naturally he couldn't fight with the North. He won his spurs under Lee.... After the war had blown over he came home, to find that his only son had enlisted with the Radville company and disappeared at Gettysburg.
I shall be sorry to see the day when Radville is other than as it is: the quiet, peaceful, sleepy little town, nestling in the bosom of the hills, clean, sweet and wholesome.... But this is rambling far from the momentous twenty-first of June, my day of triumph. I shall try to set down connectedly and coherently the events which culminated in the humbling of Will Bigelow to the dust.
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