16/27 However, he has frozen to the Culpeppers because they are from the South, and clearly he thinks they are the only persons of consequence in town. He is easily thirty-five, walks with a cane, struts like a peacock, and Molly and Jane are having great sport with him. Also he is the only man in town with any money. He brought five thousand dollars in gold, real money,--his people made it on contraband cotton contracts during the War, they say,--and he has been the only visible means of support the town has had for three months. But in the meantime don't worry about Molly, Bob, she's all right, and business is business, you know, and you shouldn't let such things interfere with it. |