The nature of the rebuke showed the deep interest Mattie felt in him.

"If I had taken pay," said Tite, hesitating, "'twould have been different.

I carried his carpet-bag, I know, but then I did it as a favor; and, as you saw, declined to take the sixpence he offered me.

But I'll do as you say, Mattie, and won't do so again; for I want to please you, you know." The words fell nervously from Tite's lips, and there was a throbbing at the heart he could not suppress.
"My mother," resumed Mattie, in a frank, girlish manner, "brought this man Warren Holbrook into the house at Dogtown, and he got father into such a deal of trouble.

He was always quarrelling with somebody.