A heavy, coarse, red-faced, dull-eyed man, with an air of brutish obstinacy in every lineament and movement, he stared for a moment without a word or sign of welcome, and then looking at his wife, said, in a grunting, surly tone, "Look here; don't be fooling round.

The old man's bust up!" He banged the door violently to, and they heard his clumsy footsteps creaking up the stairs..