Did they quarrel and did the most wilful of the two insist on getting out at the foot of the hill and walking up through the lane ?" "I doubt if I have anything to say to Mr.Johnston on this subject," was the wary reply.
"What if he added another name to the Johnston ?" "It would make no appreciable difference.

The driver is a loquacious fellow, talk to him." Mr.Ransom felt his heart fail him.

He surveyed closely the mouth which had uttered this off-hand sentence and saw that it was set in a line there was no mistaking.

Little enlightenment was to be got from this man.
Yet he made one more effort.
"Did my wife sign the will ?" he asked.

"All pretense aside, this is a very important matter to me, Mr.Harper; not on account of the money involved, but because the doing of this simple act seemed to require such an effort on her part." "You are mistaken," was the quick reply, harshly accentuated.