Here Mr.Cobb was firm.

Three years--two years--he would not consider.

At last he announced that he would take a one-year mortgage on the Barnes property for fifteen hundred dollars; and that was all he would do.
"And I wouldn't do that for nobody else," he declared.

"You bein' my relation I don't know's it ain't my duty as a perfessin' Christian to--to help you out.

I hadn't ought to afford it, but I'm willin' to go so far." Thankful shook her head.