easy enough, for they're not a sort we want to associate with much--but

what I can't bear with any quietness at all, is his telling Franky our

bill was running pretty high this morning when I sent him for some meal

--and that was all he said, too--didn't give him the meal--turned off and

went to talking with the Hargrave girls about some stuff they wanted to

cheapen."

"Nancy, this is astounding!"

"And so it is, I warrant you. I've kept still, Si, as long as ever I

could. Things have been getting worse and worse, and worse and worse,

every single day; I don't go out of the house, I feel so down; but you

had trouble enough, and I wouldn't say a word--and I wouldn't say a word

now, only things have got so bad that I don't know what to do, nor where

to turn." And she gave way and put her face in her hands and cried.

"Poor child, don't grieve so. I never thought that of Johnson. I am

clear at my wit's end. I don't know what in the world to do. Now if

somebody would come along and offer $3,000--Uh, if somebody only would

come along and offer $3,000 for that Tennessee Land."

You'd sell it, S!" said Mrs. Hawkins excitedly.

Try me!"

Mrs. Hawkins was out of the room in a moment. Within a minute she was

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