Can I help you in any way?
Believe me, I should like to.

We have been old friends, whatever difference in our luck, I am yours still." Thus adjured, the redoubtable Jim, in a hoarse whisper, with a furtive eye on the house, admitted that he was traveling for an itinerant peddler, whom he expected to join later in the settlement; that he had his own methods of disposing of his wares, and (darkly) that his proprietor and the world generally had better not interfere with him; that (with a return to more confidential lightness) he had already "worked the Wild West Injin" business so successfully as to dispose of his wares, particularly in yonder house, and might do even more if not prematurely and wantonly "blown upon," "gone back on," or "given away." "But wouldn't you like to settle down on some bit of land like this, and improve it for yourself ?" said Clarence.

"All these valley terraces are bound to rise in value, and meantime you would be independent.

It could be managed, Jim.

I think I could arrange it for you," he went on, with a slight glow of youthful enthusiasm.