Hard times did not worry him, nor did domestic troubles.

Mrs.Crow often admitted that she tried her best to worry him, but it was like "pouring water on a duck's back." He went blissfully on his way, earning encomiums for himself and honours for Tinkletown.

There was no grave crime committed in the land that he did not have a well-defined scheme for apprehending the perpetrators.

His "deductions" at Lamson's store never failed to draw out and hold large audiences, and no one disputed his theories in public.

The fact that he was responsible for the arrest of various hog, horse, and chicken thieves from time to time, and for the continuous seizure of the two town drunkards, Tom Folly and Alf Reesling, kept his reputation untarnished, despite the numerous errors of commission and omission that crept in between.
That Rosalie's mysterious friends--or enemies, it might have been--kept close and accurate watch over her was manifested from time to time.
Once, when Anderson was very ill with typhoid fever, the package of bills was accompanied by an unsigned, typewritten letter.