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Uncle Jabez had a young man to help him in the mill. It was true, Aunt Alviry said, that Jasper Parloe had worked for some time at the Red Mill; but he was quarrelsome and Mr. Potter had declared he was not honest.
"Yeou kin get it, I warrant." "I suppose I can." He drew his purse from his pocket. "I've got three dollars and a half here. I'll have the rest for you on Monday." "Quite correct," said Jasper Parloe, clutching eagerly at the money. "I'll trust ye till then oh, yes! I'll trust ye till then."
Ruth bobbed into the house in a hurry, with a single wave of her hand to Tom, for she was not yet quite ready. When she came down five minutes later, with a fresh ribbon in her hair and one of the new frocks that she had never worn before looking its very trimmest, Jasper Parloe had alighted from his ramshackle wagon and was talking with Tom, who still sat in the automobile.
When Tom released Reno from his watch and ward, the dog trotted after Ruth and put his nose into her hand. "Ye been up ter the mill, hev ye?" queried Parloe, eyeing Tom Cameron aslant. "ye oughter be gre't friends with Jabe Potter. Or has he squared hisself with ye?" "Say, Mister Parloe," said Tom, sharply, "you've been hinting something about the miller every time you've seen me lately
"He's a-talkin', ain't he?" "Jest mutterin'," said Parloe, who was at Tom's head. "'Tain't nothi But Ruth heard the murmur of the unconscious boy, and the words startled her. They were: "It was Jabe Potter he did it! It was Jabe Potter he did it!" What did they mean? Or, was there no meaning at all to the muttering of the wounded boy?
They hurried Tubby back to the Red Mill and Ruth ran in ahead of her friends with the cash-box in her hands. The moment Uncle Jabez saw it he started forward with a loud cry. He almost tore the box from her grasp; but then became gentle again in a moment. "Gal!" he ejaculated, softly, "how'd ye git this away from Parloe?" "Oh, Uncle! how did you know he had it?" "I've been suspicious.
They could hardly hear each other shout during the next few minutes. The waters rose and poured over the dam, and part of it was swept out. Great waves beat upon the river-wall of the mill. And then, with a tearing crash of rent timbers and masonry, the front of the little office and the storeroom, built out over the river, was torn away. From that quarter Jasper Parloe ran, yelling wildly.
Jerry is a character a regular old salt, and I love to have his company. And that makes me think! Why can't we make up a party and go out? You can bring the three girls you are going to visit, and I can bring my cousin, Mary Parloe." "Now you are talking!" shouted Sam. "What a jolly trip it will be!"
And you've known it all the time, and kept still about it!" "That mean, contemptible Jasper Parloe! He's told!" gasped Tom. "Jasper Parloe told?" repeated Ruth. "Not me." "Then " "You muttered it when they carried you to the doctor's house that night. You said it was my uncle," said Ruth, quietly. "I have known it all along, and so has Parloe, I suppose.
I got a conscience, I have," pursued Parloe, cringing and rubbing his hands together, his sly little eyes sparkling. "I r'ally feel as though I'd oughter tell yer dad who it was almost run ye down that night and made ye fall into the gully." "You mean, you'd like to handle Dad's ten dollars!" cried Tom, angrily. Parloe smirked and still rubbed his hands together.
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