I need help, inside the house and out." I left him talking with the whole Fewkes family, except Rowena, who kept herself out of sight somewhere, and went out to the stable to work.
Gowdy was talking to them in that low-voiced, smiling way of his, with the little sympathetic tremor in his voice like that in the tone of an organ.

He had already told Surajah that his idea for a mouse-trap looked like something the world had been waiting for, and that there might be a fortune in the scheme.

Ma Fewkes was looking up at him, as if what he said must be the law and gospel.

He had them all hypnotized, or as we called it then, mesmerized--so I thought as I went out of sight of them.
After a while, Rowena came around the end of a haystack, and spoke to me.
"Mr.Gowdy wants us all to go to work for him," she said.

"He wants pa and the boys to work around the place, and he says he thinks some of Surrager's machines are worth money.