"When the owner comes he will need servants, and Hucks is a very capable old fellow.

Let that problem rest until the time comes for solution.

If the old folks are to be turned out, make John Merrick do it; it will put the responsibility on his shoulders." "By dum, yer right, Bob!" exclaimed McNutt.

slapping the counter with his usual impulsiveness.

"I'll do the best I kin for the rich man, an' let the poor man alone." After an examination of the farm house and other buildings (which seemed in his eyes almost palatial), and a conference with Alonzo Taft, the carpenter, the agent began to feel that his task was going to prove an easy one.