I own six farms near Hooker's Falls, which is in this county, and six hundred acres of good pine forest, and I'm director in the Bank of Huntingdon, with plenty of money out on interest.

Also I own half the stock in the new paper mill at Royal--" "You do ?" she exclaimed.

"I thought Mr.Skeelty--" "Skeelty's the head man, of course," he said.

"He came to me about the mill proposition and I went in with him.

I own all the forest around Royal.