What you doin' walkin' as close to him as all that ?" Mrs.Adams addressed her son in gentle reproof, "Why Walter!" "Oh, never mind, mama," Alice said.

"To the horrid all things are horrid." "Get out!" Walter protested, carelessly.

"I heard all about this Russell down at the shop.

Young Joe Lamb's such a talker I wonder he don't ruin his grandfather's business; he keeps all us cheap help standin' round listening to him nine-tenths of our time.

Well, Joe told me this Russell's some kin or other to the Palmer family, and he's got some little money of his own, and he's puttin' it into ole Palmer's trust company and Palmer's goin' to make him a vice-president of the company.
Sort of a keep-the-money-in-the-family arrangement, Joe Lamb says." Mrs.Adams looked thoughtful.