He was gone up the river; but he got back to-day, and I told him as soon as he got here two hours ago." I had got so uneasy I couldn't set still.

I had to do something with my hands; so I took up a needle off of the table and went to threading it.
My hands shook, and I was making a bad job of it.

When the woman stopped talking I looked up, and she was looking at me pretty curious and smiling a little.

I put down the needle and thread, and let on to be interested -- and I was, too--and says: "Three hundred dollars is a power of money.

I wish my mother could get it.