But she obtained little satisfaction from her talk with the money-lender.

Mr.Cobb's first remark concerned the Holliday Kendrick offer to buy the "Cap'n Abner place." "Did he mean it, do you think ?" he demanded.

"Is he really so sot on buyin' as folks say he is ?" "I'm afraid so." "Huh! And he's hired his lawyer--that young cousin of his--Bailey Kendrick's son--to make you sell out to him ?" "Yes." "What's the young feller done about it; anything ?" "No; nothin' that I know of." "Humph! Sure of that, be ye?
I hear he's been spendin' consider'ble time over to Ostable lately, hangin' round the courthouse, and the probate clerk's office.

Know what he's doin' that for ?" "No, I didn't know he had.

How did you know it ?" "I knew.