All the satisfaction he got from them was, 'That's all right! You'll find out! You just wait!' And the poor feller put in the time afore the bell rung goin' over all the things he shouldn't have done and had, and wonderin' which it was this time.

You hinted to me a week ago that there was a surprisin' possibility loomin' up in 'Bije's financial affairs.

And ever since then I've been puzzlin' my brains tryin' to guess what could happen.

Ain't discovered any more of those Cut Short bonds, have you ?" The bonds to which he referred were those of a defunct Short Line railroad.

A large number of these bonds had been discovered among A.
Rodgers Warren's effects; part of his "tangled assets," the captain had termed them, differentiating from the "tangible" variety.
"Abbie, my housekeeper, has been writin' me," he went on, "about havin' the sewin' room papered.