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Updated: June 29, 2025
It was past midnight before the laborious four finished their review of the books and joined with Scattergood in giving Ovid a clean bill of health. "Didn't think Ovid had it in him to steal," said Kettleman. "Hain't got no business stirrin' us up like this for nothin'," said Atwell, acrimoniously. "Maybe," suggested Scattergood, "Ovid's come down with a fit of suthin'."
He knew what he wanted to do with his valley, and had perfect confidence he should accomplish it. But he had no disposition to hasten matters unwisely. It was better, as he told Sam Kettleman, the grocer, "to let an apple fall in your lap instead of skinnin' your shins goin' up the tree after it and then findin' it was green."
Presently Sam Kettleman appeared on the porch of his grocery across the street, and Scattergood called to him: "Well, Sam, glad you decided to git the woman a new stove. Shows you're up an' doin'. It's all set up by this time." Sam stared a moment; then, smitten speechless, he rushed across the road and stood, a picture of rage, glaring at Scattergood. "I didn't buy no stove.
"Cash, and Cut Prices," quoted Atwell, "and you fellers know our folks would pass by their own brothers to save a penny. He'll force us to cut, too." "Me I won't do it," asserted Kettleman. "Then you'll eat your stock," growled Locker. "Fellers," said Atwell, "if this man gits started it's goin' to cost all of us money. He'll draw some trade, even if he don't cut prices.
"Cash," he concluded. "Calc'late we better sell," said the elder. An hour later, with the papers in his pocket to prove ownership, Scattergood visited the stores of his rivals, Locker, Kettleman, Lumley, and Penny. "Gentlemen," he said, "you been a-tryin' to crowd me out of business. I hain't made a cent of profit f'r two months, and I calc'late on a profit of two hunderd and fifty a month.
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