And then what do you think happened?
Old Tempy up and practically ordered everybody out of the house.

Said he was tired and wanted to be left alone.

'Good-bye,' he said, just like that, right in our faces--right in mother's face, and the preacher's, and old Mrs.Browne's.

You could have heard a pin drop.
'Good-bye,' that's what he said, and then, will you believe it, he turned to one of the pie-faced lawyers and said to him: 'Will you turn over that package to my wife, Mr.Hollenback ?' and then he says to that man of his: 'Wade, be good enough to hand Mr.Tresslyn the little acknowledgment for his services ?' Then and there, that lawyer gave Anne a thick envelope and Wade gave me a little box,--a little bit of a box that I wish I'd kept to bury the old skinflint in.

It would be just about his size.