I guess settling up that Canneries business cost him some money, but things had always come too easy for Morton.

And now that they've moved down here, Hallie's cheered up a good deal, and she shows signs of being cured of the sanatorium habit." We were passing round the Monument, whose candelabra flooded the plaza with light, and Mrs.Owen inveighed for a moment against automobiles in general as we narrowly escaped being run down by a honking juggernaut at Christ Church corner.
"It seems Morton has grown some," she resumed.

"He's even got big enough to forgive his enemies, and John Ware says only great men do that.
You've noticed that 'Hoosier Folks at Home' column in the 'Courier'?
Well, Ike Pettit runs that; Morton brought him to town on purpose after Edward Thatcher closed out the Fraserville paper.

I read every word of that column every day.

It gives you a kind of moving-picture show of cloverfields, and children singing in the country schools, and rural free delivery wagons throwing off magazines and newspapers, and the interurban cars cutting slices out of the lonesomeness of the country folks.