[The Girl From Keller’s by Harold Bindloss]@TWC D-Link bookThe Girl From Keller’s CHAPTER II 18/27
"I want you to quit joking and listen. We're going to have a boom at the settlement as soon as the railroad's opened, and I and the old man can hardly manage the store and hotel. We've got to have help; somebody the boys like and we can trust.
Well, if you took hold the right way----" She stopped, but Charnock understood.
Keller was often ill and was getting old.
He could not carry on his rapidly extending business much longer, and Charnock might presently take his place.
But this was not all, and he hesitated. "Do you think I'm fit for the job ?" he asked. "You could do it if you tried." Charnock smiled.
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