I
happen to know that one of the parties that's goin' to put his name on
one of Strout's notes said quietly to another party that told a feller
that I heerd it from that it wouldn't be more'n a year afore he'd be
runnin' that grocery store himself."
"Well, Hiram Maxwell, I've got some money that I am not using just now.
You know that I've got quite a large account to settle with that
Professor Strout, and I can afford to pay pretty handsomely to get even
with him. Now do you think if you had that grocery store that you could
make a success of it?"
"Could I?" cried Hiram, "waal, I know I could. I know every man, woman,
and child in this town, and there isn't one of them that's got anythin'
agin me that I knows of."
"I'd back you up," said Quincy, "but I've got something against you, and
I will not agree to put my money into that store until you explain to me
something that you told me several weeks ago. I don't say but that you
told me the truth as far as it went, but you didn't tell me the whole
truth, and that's what I find fault with you for."
Hiram's eyes had dilated, and he looked at Quincy with a wild glance of
astonishment.
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