As I was tied up tight right then I had to get Mrs.Owen to help me out.

It wasn't the kind of deal you want to hawk about town, and neither Thatcher nor I cared to have it known for a while that we had bought the paper.

But it's hardly a secret now, of course.

Mrs.Owen and I together own one hundred and fifty-one shares of the total of three hundred; Thatcher owns the rest and he was satisfied to let it go that way.

He signed an agreement that I should manage the paper, and said he didn't want anything but dividends." "Mrs.Owen's interest is subject to your wishes, of course; that goes without saying." "Well, I guaranteed eight per cent on her investment, but we've made it lately, easily.