She was an employee of the institution, not
its patron. Well, if you should, at any time, you must say so. Dave Cummings is
a pretty smart politician as well as a goodbusiness man, she said.
I dont see how you dared do it, but I only
wish I had yourcourage.
Just ask Phoebe Carleton tostep in as you go
out, will you, please? Ive paid my interest reglar and this weir, if it done
well,might help me pay some of the principal. Mary, she said, theres just one
thing I do want to say. Youre carryin a mortgage already on your realproperty,
includin the cranberry bog. Well, IM sick, and I shall be until you come to
yoursenses.
Then, asbefore, he went into the inner
room.
She dwelt upon her loneliness and her feeling
that shemust do something to keep her mind occupied. I heardyou were, but I
have lived too long to believe more than half Ihear. She was on her way to the
door, when he spoke. I know I amdoing exactly the right thing and I am going to
do it. But the trouble is you havent got anysecurity to back up a loan. But its
the only piece of luck ever come my way, thischance is.
If you say so, its fair enough,I suppose. Its
high time, I should say, she snapped, rising and shaking
herskirts.
Cahoon was a thin-faced, pleasant
oldfellow.
Freeman told me and so did Fred Donalds wife
and EmmaBradley and others.
Cummings, rising from the table, turnedto Miss
Brewster. But the trouble is you havent got anysecurity to back up a loan.