Anybody else had any better luck ?" No one had, although several had had similar interviews with the master of "Silverleaf Hall." "Obed looks as if he knew somethin'," remarked Weeks.

"What is it, Obed ?" Mr.Gott scornfully waved his hand.
"You fellers make me laugh," he said.

"You talk and talk, but you don't do nothin'.

I b'lieve in doin', myself.

When I went home t'other night, thinks I: 'There's one man that might know somethin' 'bout old Hardee, and that's Godfrey, the hotel man.' So I wrote to Godfrey up to Boston and I got a letter from him.