He would not endure cheating, and always bought the best.
Of his sanity up to the day of his master's death there was no question; but more than one man with whom he had had dealings was ready to testify that there had been a change in his manner for the past few weeks--a sort of subdued excitement, quite unlike his former methodical bearing.
He had shown an inclination to testiness, and was less easily pleased than formerly.

To one clerk he had shown a nasty spirit under very slight provocation, and was only endured in the store on account of his master, who was too good a customer for them to offend.

Mr.Kelly, a grocer, went so far as to say he acted like a man with a grievance who burned to vent his spite on some one, but held himself in forcible restraint.
Perhaps if no tragedy had taken place in the house on -- -- Street these various persons would not have been so ready to interpret thus unfavorably a nervousness excusable enough in one so cut off from all communication with his kind.

But with the violent end of his master in view, and his own unexplained connection with it, who could help recalling that his glance had frequently shown malevolence?
But this was not evidence of the decided character required by the law, and Mr.Gryce was about to regard the day as a lost one, when Sweetwater made his reappearance at Headquarters.

The expression of his face put new life into Mr.Gryce.
"What!" he cried, "you have not found her ?" Sweetwater smiled.