He's at the store, isn't he ?" Shadrach shook his head.
"No, he ain't," he said.

"He's to home." Mary was amazed and a trifle alarmed.

One partner of Hamilton and Company was there in the buggy with her.

By all the rules of precedent and South Harniss business the other should have been at the store.

She knew that her uncles had employed no clerk or assistant since she left.
"But--but is Uncle Zoeth sick ?" she asked.
"Sick?
No, no, course he ain't sick.