I c'd only guess at that; but Ame's face was enough fer me," and Dick went off into another cachinnation.
David's face indicated some annoyance.

"Oh, shet up," he exclaimed.
"You'd keep that yawp o' your'n goin', I believe, if it was the judgment day." "Wa'al," said Dick with a grin, "I expect the' might be some fun to be got out o' _that_, if a feller wa'n't worryin' too much about his own skin; an' as fur's I'm concerned----" Dick's further views on the subject of that momentous occasion were left unexplained.

A significant look in David's face caused the speaker to break off and turn toward the door, through which came two men, the foremost a hulking, shambling fellow, with an expression of repellent sullenness.

He came forward to within about ten feet of David's desk, while his companion halted near the door.

David eyed him in silence.
"I got this here notice this mornin'," said the man, "sayin' 't my note 'd be due to-morrer, an' 'd have to be paid." "Wa'al," said David, with his arm over the back of his chair and his left hand resting on his desk, "that's so, ain't it ?" "Mebbe so," was the fellow's reply, "fur 's the comin' due 's concerned, but the payin' part 's another matter." "Was you cal'latin' to have it renewed ?" asked David, leaning a little forward.
"No," said the man coolly, "I don't know 's I want to renew it fer any pertic'ler time, an' I guess it c'n run along fer a while jest as 't is." John looked at Dick Larrabee.