CHAPTER XXXII.
JULIA'S ENTERPRISE.
4 August was very sick at the castle.

This wag the first news of his return that reached Julia through Jonas and Cynthy Ann.
But in my interest in Jonas and Cynthy Ann, of whom I think a great deal, I forgot to say that long before the events mentioned in the last chapter, Humphreys had been suddenly called away from his peaceful retreat in the hill country of Clark township.

In fact, the "important business," or "the illness of a friend," whichever it was, occurred the very next day after Norman Anderson's father returned from Louisville, and reported that he had secured for his son an "outside situation," that is to say, a place as a collector.
When he had gone, Jonas remarked to Cynthy Ann, "Where the carcass is, there the turkey-buzzards is gethered.

That shinin' example of early piety never plays but one game.

That is, fox-and-geese.