But in a moment she rose and, putting the plant with some others that were to go to the cellar, replied: "Oh, Phil--you know a mother tries to hope against hope.

She teaches her school every day, and keeps her mind busy.

But sometimes, when she stops in here after school or for lunch, she can't help dropping things that let me know.

I think her heart is breaking, Phil." "Does she know about the wheat deal--I mean about the way he has made the farmers sign that mortgage by cutting them off from borrowing money at the bank ?" "Not all of it--but I think she suspects," replied the wife.
"Did you know, dear," said the general, as he put the plants in the barrow to wheel them to the cellar, "that I ran across something to-day--it may be all suspicion, and I don't want to wrong John--but Mart Culpepper, God bless his big innocent heart, let something slip--well, it was John, I think, who arranged for that loan of ten thousand from Brownwell to Mart.

Though why he didn't get it at the bank, I don't know.