Hill that the papers relating to the store are
nearly ready, and if he and his son will come here this afternoon we
will execute them. I would like to have you and Mr. Pettengill on hand
as witnesses."
Hiram started off on his mission, and Quincy returned to his room and
busied himself with the preparation of the documents for the transfer of
the grocery store, and the making out of the necessary notes to cover
the twenty-five hundred dollars due for the same.
He had not seen Alice at breakfast, nor did she appear at the dinner
table. He had followed the rule since she came to the house not to make
any open inquiries about her health, but from words dropped by Ezekiel
and Uncle Ike, he had kept fairly well informed as to the result of her
treatment. At dinner Ezekiel remarked that his sister had commenced to
take her new medicine, and that he reckoned it must be purty powerful,
for she had said that she didn't wish anything to eat, and didn't want
anything sent to her room.
Quincy politely expressed his regrets at her indisposition and trusted
that she would soon be able to join them again at meal time.
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