She thanked me and all that; but she snubbed me just the same.

I'm disgusted.

I'm through--absolutely and completely through trying to help that girl!" Keith did not say, "I told you so"; in fact, he said little or nothing more at the time.

But a day or two afterwards he called at the store.
Zoeth and Captain Shadrach were alone there, their niece having gone down to the house, a fact of which the caller was aware.
The partners liked John Keith.

They considered him, as Captain Shad said, "a first-rate, everyday sort of feller," who did not patronize nor put on airs, even though he was a "summer man" and rich.