Son, I wish you had the acquisitive faculty.

Why don't you invest something and make something ?" But Bob Hendricks was content to do his work in the bank, and read at home one night and slip over to the Culpeppers' the next night, and so long as the boy was steady and industrious and careful, his father had no real cause for complaint, and he knew it.
But the town knew that John was getting on in the world.

He owned half of Culpepper's second addition, and his interest in College Heights was clear; he never dealt in equities, but paid cash and gave warranty deeds for what he sold.

It was believed around the Ridge that he could "clean up," for fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, and when he called Mrs.Mason of the Mason House, Minneola, into the dining room one afternoon to talk over a little matter with her, he found her most willing.

It was a short session.