was a field and the had struck water somewhere and made him a first rate well he had been intending to dig one for a good while i want to know exclaimed the listener brown heard this flow of s eloquence and was amused at the response it seemed that the listener a worthy well to do farmer had an idea of introducing the to his neighborhood and was trying to obtain one on trial at reduced price with a promise of wide influence in its behalf and cordial recommendation believed in the farmers and the affair was presently concluded brown was amazed to hear his companion say that he brown had thinking that he should like to pay a visit to that neighborhood at county fair time and speak to the folks on agricultural topics liked the two his jokes and brown smiled but he turned a little cold and wondered if they were not going a trifle too fast there might not be enough of him for two at this rate i but it was something to find himself a busy prosperous man instead of an idle overgrown boy and among the new of its class none stood better than brown there was little time left for serious business conference but had great ability and so had mr john b brown of city for that matter was thin yet and not very well dressed but he had a confident air how well he knows human nature and what a good fellow he is i thought brown as they parted is more of a man than the i met in that newspaper office reflected i never have lost a cent for him either but hang me if we have n t had some narrow escapes i got him in pretty deep once when he had the worst doubts of me he ever had looked solemn but he never flung at me or did anything but shoulder half the blame and the worry like a man in the neighborhood of the company s office the two brown met several business acquaintances who gave him a friendly good morning he had gathered a whole new circle of associates in his character of senior partner of brown he had indulged in bad with these friends and already figured largely in the agricultural world he would have been deeply gratified if he had heard somebody say as he went by that s brown of the company those fellows are sweeping before spring they ve got hold of as big a thing as the mc it was ten or fifteen minutes walk between the two offices and when j brown esq seated himself at his desk he was still thinking about his other business which he usually insisted upon putting out of his mind he never had looked at it so entirely from the outside he was at heart a most person he was more than he knew by his family pride and traditions and he had become persuaded of his ability to follow the law in a way that he never used to expect he felt it in him to make his influence recognized at the bar and to handle heavy pieces the two of business now that was so well established he could slip out and hold only a silent if he pleased yet an opposing judgment in his own mind at the moment prevented hm from cordially such an idea there were some things and he knew it that could not have planned nor have carried without him and the concern might easily fall to pieces even now there was his own boy however who must inherit as fair a name from him as he had from his father there had never yet been a man of his name had counted upon the value of the family reputation at first he insisted that they were throwing away a great advantage by not adding the of j to the plain brown j brown was a name of historical renown did not begin to understand yet that john b brown was as utterly unknown to the friends of the j as if he and his had never existed he simply knew that was old easier to keep his two occupations apart and only f ro half past eight to ten and from three o clock the two until dinner time he was the steady shaft horse of brown brown sat in the office busy at his work having finished his reflections without coming to any new he was working up a law case that he took great pride in all his inherited cleverness and a new love for such a puzzle delighted him he never had felt a sense of his own power and the was utterly forgotten some one entered the office and gave a chair one pull across the polished wood floor it sounded as if the had left a scratch and brown looked round with not a little annoyance he felt a strange suspicion that one of his company associates had at last hunted him down there was an inner room for purposes of private consultation and brown signified after a proper interval that the stranger might go there it was a place where he had once tried to have his own desk but it was much too gloomy especially in the days when there was nothing to do except when he was at court or at his other business he was very faithful to his post and the stranger need not have been so glad to find him at his office the two i see that you re your father s own son the began in an voice he looked like a cross old fellow and brown had an instant sense of relief because the first words had not been suggestive of the other place of business i knew your father and grandfather before you said mr and i 