"He is too busy and too rich to--think about girls." "He wasn't too busy and too rich to inquire about you 'most every day since he got back from the war." "I didn't forget to call him 'Colonel,' and that pleased both him and Bell.

Then I told them that I proposed to become a rich and successful oil operator and wanted their advice how to begin.

Old Bell was amused, but Henry--I beg pardon, _Colonel_--Nelson was shocked.

He couldn't bear to think of women, and of me especially, in business.

He might have become disagreeably personal if his father hadn't been there." "Dunno's I care much for Henry," Tom said, mildly.
"Oh, he's all right, but--I _hate_ Bell! It makes anybody mad to be laughed at.