After supper, the third story, How He Lost Both Name and Fortune, was
read and corrected, and it was the unusually late hour of eleven o'clock
before the lights in the Pettengill house were extinguished. It was past
midnight when Quincy sought his room at Mrs. Hawkins's boarding house,
and the picture of Alice Pettengill, that he had purloined so long ago,
stood on a little table at the head of his bed, leaning against a large
family Bible, which he found in the room.
The next morning he was up early, and visited the grocery store. Mr.
Strout and Hiram both assured him that business had picked up amazingly,
and was really "splendid." The new wagons were building up trade very
fast. Billy Ricker went over to Montrose for orders Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday mornings, and delivered them in the afternoons. This gave
Abbott Smith a chance to post up the books on those days, for he had
been made bookkeeper. He went to Eastborough Centre and Westvale, the
new name given to West Eastborough at the last town meeting, Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday mornings. He delivered goods on the afternoons of
those days, which gave him an opportunity to spend Sunday at home with
his father and his family.
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