He wants twenty thousand acres, and pretty well bunched down in Pleasant and Spring townships, and I'm going in four days." The young man was full of the scheme.

He went on: "John's a wonder, Molly,--a perfect wonder.

He's got grit.
Father wouldn't have been able to stand up under this--but John has braced him, and has cheered up the people, and I believe, before the week is out, we will be able to get nearly all the depositors to agree to leave their money alone for a year, and then only take it out on thirty days' notice.

And if we can get that, we can open up by the first of the month.

But I've got to go on to Washington to see if I can arrange that with the comptroller of the currency." They were standing at the Culpepper gate as he spoke.