If things go right I can pay the note, and if they don't he can get the property back.

But in the meantime folks won't be able to say anything against me.

They can't say then that I'm down on Sam, like some of them say now, and if anybody talks about Bartram and the upper-crust folks that have been helping the meetings along, I can just remind them that talk is cheap and that it's money that tells.

I'll do it, as sure as my name's Quickset; and the quicker I do it the better it will be for me, if I'm not mistaken." The deacon hurried off to the shoe-store.

As usual, the only occupant of the shop was Sam.
"Where's Larry, Sam ?" asked the deacon, briskly.
"I don't know, sir," said Sam, "but I'm afraid he's at Weitz's beer-shop." "Well, Sam," said the deacon, trying to be pleasant, though his mouth was very severely set, "while you're in the converting line,--which I hear you're doing wonders at, and I'm very glad to hear it,--why don't you begin at home and bring about a change in Larry ?" "Do you know, deacon," said Sam, "I was thinkin' about the same thing?
and I'm goin' to see that priest of his about--" "Oh, Sam!" groaned the deacon.