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This remark gave Hiram an opportunity which he was not slow in improving. "I heerd as how there was another feller in town who tried to get Huldy to marry him and throw poor 'Zeke over." Mr. Strout puckered up his mouth and there was a strained look on his face which indicated that the shot had gone home. But his verbal ammunition was not all expended.
Quincy noticed that the wooden plate and a sheet of thick paper were put on the scales before the butter was cut from the tub. "Well, what can I do for you, Master Sawyer?" said Strout when the customer who had paid thirty cents a pound for butter including wood and paper had departed. "I came to say good-bye. I am going to Europe."
"Just like you to come spyin' round. You allers was a meddler, an' underhanded. But now you know the truth, what are you going to do about it?" Quincy walked to the door. "Well, Mr. Strout, I'm going to put it about as you did when I first came to Mason's Corner, Either you or I have got to leave town. This is our last fight, and I'm going to win."
Ministers' sons are seldom appalled by worldly ways and, quite often, adopt them. "This is Arthur Scates," said Mr. Strout, as he presented a young man with sunken cheeks, hollow eyes, and an emaciated body. "He ain't enjoyin' the best of health." "Ah, I remember," said Quincy. "You are the young man who was to sing at the concert when I first came here.
Strout, "but I think he's a little weak in the legs. He won't disgust the community by fightin' as his father did." "I wish he'd thrash Bob Wood's son he's too impudent to live," said Mrs. Amanda Maxwell, to whom Mr. Strout had addressed his remark. "No danger o' that," and Mr. Strout laughed gleefully. "Young Bob's as good with his fists as his father was." "He didn't amount to much when Mr.
Strout only wrote that mortgage for a year and he can do what he calls 'call it in' a month from now. Of course, mother can't pay the mortgage; it is hard enough to pay the interest on it. And so Mr. Strout says he will just take the house back and we we'll lose our money, and all," finished Amy with almost a sob. "Why, I think that is too mean for anything!" cried her friend.
I gave the house to 'Zekiel because I never could have lived in it. Maude and I are going to call on Mrs. Strout." Quincy found 'Zekiel in the barn, and broached the matter on his mind at once. "I'm glad you spoke of it," said 'Zekiel. "I was over to Mandy's yesterday and Uncle Ike wants to come and live with us.
"Perhaps they have found some ignorant woman who really was a relative of Peter Blayne, and who may have a small claim on the property. It is enough to invalidate the deed Mrs. Carringford has and yet she will be unable to prove that Strout and his man Jamison knew about the fault in the title.
When a man breaks his word to me onct he don't do it a second time. That's why," and Abner went out and slammed the door after him. Mr. Strout was angry, and when in that state of mind he was often lacking in prudence in speech. "That comes of turning a place of business into a resort for loafers.
To Janice, afterward, he would say nothing more encouraging than he had said to the widow. "When one mixes up with a sharper like Abel Strout, one is likely to be burned before he is through. Strout is always and forever trying little, nasty, legal tricks. And Schrimpe is an instrument fitted to Strout's hand.
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