He had offered him a good salary.

He wanted to carry out some new-fangled schemes which he had got out of books.

Burr was going right to work; he had hired a man from New Salem to help him.
People began to think better of Lot Gordon than they had ever done, and they looked at Burr with more respect.

Many had considered that Dorothy Fair was not going to "do very well." "Guess if it wa'n't for her father, and the chance of Lot's dying, she'd have a pretty poor prospect," they had said.

Now they agreed that "Maybe Burr Gordon won't turn out so bad after all.