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A practical solid man, if a dull and even dreary; "carries his weighing-scales in his pocket:" when your jailer answers, "The prisoner's allowance of food is so and so; and we observe it sacredly; here, for example, is a ration." "Hey! A ration this?" and solid John suddenly produces his weighing-scales; weighs it, marks down in his tablets what the actual quantity of it is.
And as, saddle on shoulder, he stood on the weighing-scales and caught sight of the oncoming hosts of "Cottonton" and read what the girl's eyes held, then, indeed, he knew all that his finish had earned him the beginning of a new life with a new name; the beginning of one that the lesson he had learned, backed by the great love that had come to him, would make paradise.
"Oh yes, 'mos' every little spell," replied the butcher, as he reached behind his weighing-scales and picked up a double-barrelled shot-gun, sawed off. "We-uns are expectin' of they-uns to-day." And he broke the barrels and took out the shells to examine them. "Do they come shooting?" I interposed. He shut the gun with a snap. "We split even, stranger."
"Good-night," he said; "the Stilton's excellent!" His neighbour raised his brows, and dropped his eyes again upon his plate. In the hall Shelton went from force of habit to the weighing-scales and took his weight. "Eleven stone!" he thought; "gone up!" and, clipping a cigar, he sat down in the smoking-room with a novel. After half an hour he dropped the book.
From her high chair behind the counter, with the cash- register on her one side and the weighing-scales on the other, she gave her little Senate laws, and smiled upon each and all with the kind impartiality of a comrade. At least, at one time she had been impartial. But of late she smiled upon all save Lieutenant Ranson.
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