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One virtue he possessed, and that was an ability to follow directions and to keep his mouth shut. Not many days after Scattergood became the owner of the store at Bailey, Jim was a caller at the new offices of the lumber company, formed when Crane and Keith pooled their interests.
"Goodness!" said Aunt 'Mira. "They ain't none o' them sick, be they?" "Sick enough, I guess," exclaimed Mrs. Scattergood, nodding her head vigorously: "Leastways, 'Rill oughter be. I told her so! I was faithful in season, and outer season, warnin' her what would happen if she married that Drugg." "Oh, Mrs. Scattergood! What has happened?" cried Janice, earnestly.
We don't want you should start up any business here." "You're too late. It's started. I've leased these premises." "But you hain't no stock in." "I calc'late on havin' one shortly," said Scattergood, with a twinkle in his eye, whose meaning was kindly concealed from the five. "What'll you take not to order any stock?" asked Atwell, abruptly. "Figger on buyin' me off, eh?
"Hain't you discoverin' it a mite late?" "It was left wholly to you." "Seems like I noticed it," said Scattergood. "So all that work's lost, eh? Seems a pity, too." "You don't seem to take it seriously." "You bet I do, and I calculate to look into it some." "It won't do any good. The mistake is plain." "Shouldn't be s'prised. I git your idee, McKettrick.
"Might look at one," said Kent. "Need one, don't you?" "Bad." "Need quite a mess of implements, don't you?" "Could do with 'em if I had 'em.... 'Tain't what I come fur, though, Scattergood. Been tryin' to borrow money off of my brother-in-law, but he don't calclate to lend without I git an indorser, and seems like he sets store by your name on a note." "Does, eh?
Scattergood seated himself in a chair and lighted one of the cigars which made his presence so undesirable in an inclosed space. He appeared to be taking a nap.
They saw him disappear into the darkness of the side street. Janice Day put her hand to her throat; it seemed to her as though the pulse beating there would choke her. "What did I tell ye? What did I tell ye?" cried the shrill voice of Mrs. Scattergood. "Now ye'll believe what I say, I hope! The disgraceful critter! My poor, poor 'Rill! I knew how 'twould be if she married that man."
Abner halted suddenly, at arm's length from his brother, and eyed him from head to foot, and Asa returned an insolent stare. "You sneakin' hound," said Abner, without heat, as was his way in the beginning, always. "You're lower'n I thought, and I thought you was low." Scattergood took in these words and pondered them. Did they mean some new cause for enmity between the brothers?
First, the gentlemen named were no friends of Scattergood's by reason of having underestimated that fleshy individual to their financial detriment in the matter of a certain dam and boom company, of which Scattergood was now sole owner. Second, because it presaged active lumbering operations.
How dared she come back to my office?... Now she'll go with Curtis." "Shouldn't be s'prised," said Scattergood, waggling his head. "I heard Farley a-pointin' out to her the dee-sirability of Paris and Rome and sich European p'ints last night.... You calculate Sairy took the paper?" "What else can I think?"
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