S'long, Harran." He took himself off.
But before leaving Guadalajara Magnus dropped into the town's small grocery store to purchase a box of cigars of a certain Mexican brand, unprocurable elsewhere.

Harran remained in the buggy.
While he waited, Dyke appeared at the end of the street, and, seeing Derrick's younger son, came over to shake hands with him.

He explained his affair with the P.and S.W., and asked the young man what he thought of the expected rise in the price of hops.
"Hops ought to be a good thing," Harran told him.

"The crop in Germany and in New York has been a dead failure for the last three years, and so many people have gone out of the business that there's likely to be a shortage and a stiff advance in the price.

They ought to go to a dollar next year.