Mr.Grey rapped on the office door with his cane, and after waiting a moment without hearing any one, he entered a front room and looked about him.
Swallow was a personage whose like was found too often in the small Pennsylvania villages.

The only child of a close-fisted, saving farmer, he found himself on his father's death more than sufficiently well-off to go to college and later to study law.

He was careful and penurious, but failing of success in Philadelphia returned to Westways when about thirty years old, bought a piece of land in the town, built a house, married a pretty, commonplace young woman, and began to look for business.

There was little to be had.

The Squire drew his own leases and sold lands to farmers unaided.