Anything like charity would kill her.

Now out West--in Omaha or somewheres--she's got a cousin who owed her dad money.

Old Cap'n Seabury lent this Omaha man two or three thousand dollars and set him up in business.

Course, the debt's outlawed, but Olive don't realize that, or, if she did, it wouldn't count with her.

She couldn't understand how law would have any effect on payin' money you honestly owe.