� an then i could ha read i the books like fun an my head cool empty she s fine an ble now my old mother is she her baked meat an as often as she likes for i m so fuu o money i must a wife to spend it for me but it s a wife is � and t like her uncle who regarded himself as a man since he had retired from was beginning to find bob amusing but he had still a observation to make which kept his face serious ah he said i should think you re at a loss for ways o spending your money else you wouldn t keep that big dog to eat as much as two christians it s shameful � shameful but he spoke more in sorrow than in anger and quickly added � but come now let s hear more about this business tom i suppose you want a little sum to make a venture with but where s all your own money you don t spend it all � eh no sir said tom but my father is unwilling to risk it and i don t like to press him k i could get twenty or thirty pounds to begin with i could pay five per cent for it and then i could gradually make a little capital of my own and do without a loan ay ay said mr in an tone that s not a bad notion and i won t say as i wouldn t be your man but it ll be as well for me to see this salt as you talk on and then here s this o yours offers to thb mill on thb buy the goods for you perhaps you ve got somebody to stand for you if the money s put into your hands added the cautious old gentleman looking over his spectacles at bob i don t think that s necessary uncle said tom at least i mean it would not be necessary for me because i know bob well but perhaps it would be right for you to have some security you get your per out o the purchase i suppose said mr looking at bob no sir said bob rather indignantly i didn t offer to get a apple for mr tom o purpose to a bite out of it myself when i play folks there ll be more in em nor that well but it s nothing but right you should have a small per said mr i ve no opinion o transactions where folks do things for nothing it looks bad well then said bob whose saw at once what was implied i m tell you what i get by t an it s money in my pocket in the end � i make myself look big wi a bigger purchase that s what i m thinking on i i m a i am mr mr said a severe voice fix m the open parlor window pray are you coming u to tea � or are you going to stand talking with till you get murdered in the open daylight murdered said mr what s the woman talking of here s your tom come about a bit o business murdered � yes � it isn t many sizes ago since a murdered a young woman in a lone place and stole her and threw her body into a ditch nay nay said mr soothingly you re thinking o the man wi no legs as drove a dog cart well it s the same thing mr � only you re fond o what i say and if my s come about business it ud be more fitting if you d bring him into the house and let his aunt know about it instead o whispering in comers in that way well well said mr we ll come in now you needn t stay here said the lady to bob in a loud voice adapted to the moral not the physical distance between them we don t want anything i don t deal wi mind you shut the gate after you stop a bit not so fast said mr i haven t thb on ths with this young man yet in tom come in he added stepping in at the french window mr said mrs g iu a fatal tone if you re going to let that man and his dog in on my carpet before my very face be so good as to let me know a wife s got a right to ask that i hope you be uneasy said bob touching his cap he saw at once that mrs was a bit of game worth running down and longed to be at the sport we ll stay out the here � and me will knows his company � he does i might at him by th hour together b re he d fly at a real like you it s he knows which is the good looking ladies � sand s lar fond of em when they ve good shapes added bob laying down his pack on the gravel it s a thousand such a lady as you shouldn t deal with a i stead o goin into these shops where there s half a dozen fine wi their propped up wi a stiff stock a looking like bottles wi ornamental an all got to get their dinner out of a bit o it s to reason you must pay three times the price you pay a as is the way o goods � an pays no rent an isn t forced to himself till the lies are squeezed out on him whether he will or no but i yon know what it is better nor i do � can see through them i ll be bound yes i reckon i can and 